ANNOUNCING THE NEW IBC 2.0! Coming soon...a new and improved IBC with important functionalities that will greatly improve the classification of all of the material, both systematically and geographically, and will add more participatory elements, making the IBC a more efficient and useful tool for all of its users, from scientific ornithologists to backyard birdwatchers! We hope to launch the new IBC in September 2008 and given our intense efforts to make this possible, we will be reducing the number of videos that we upload to the IBC every day. Please forgive the inconvenience and get ready for the new IBC 2.0!
4 July 2008
This Friday we start with Josep del Hoyo's trip
to Qatar. One of the species shot is new for the IBC, the
Pale Rockfinch.
The rest of them are:
Little Egret,
Collared Pratincole,
Kentish Plover,
Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark and
Barn Swallow.
3 July 2008
Today Christian Boix is adding
7 new species to the collection:
Hartlaub's Francolin,
Chestnut-banded Plover,
Damara Tern,
Boehm's Bee-eater,
Miombo Pied Barbet,
Bertrand's Weaver and
Jackson's Widowbird,
as well as videos of:
Crab Plover,
Monteiro's Hornbill and
Blue-eared Barbet,
filmed in Namibia, Kenya, Malawi and India.
2 July 2008
Today we are posting a batch of 13 videos from Spain, recorded by
Carlos Fabregat, who is
showing the species that follow:
Great Cormorant,
Common Black-headed Gull,
Eurasian Blackbird,
Common Stonechat,
Northern Wheatear and
Spotless Starling.
Do you have videos from a recent birding trip that you would like
to share? Send them to the IBC, one of the fastest growing sources
of information for the global birding community!
28 February 2008
Now on the IBC you can get a list of the species not yet covered on each family page. Please check these to see if you have videos for any of the missing species. With your help we can make the IBC a more comprehensive tool for everyone!
15 February 2008
OVER 50% OF THE WORLD'S SPECIES COVERED!
We are proud to announce that with the inclusion of today's clips, the IBC now holds videos of 4871 species, more than 50% of all of the species of birds in the world! We would like to thank our amazing team of contributors for helping us achieve this important goal. With their invaluable participation the IBC has truly become a powerful tool for the worldwide birding community. Of course, the IBC won't stop there; our current goal is to cover 5000 species. If you aren't part of the IBC effort yet, now is an exciting time to join us. Write to ibc@hbw.com for information.
Continuing with Josep del Hoyo's trip to Sulawesi, we are posting another
17 videos from Tangkoko Nature Reserve and Bunaken Island, showing 11 different species:
Golden-mantled Racquet-tail,
Black-billed Kingfisher and
White-rumped Triller, which are new for the collection, and also
Little Pied Cormorant,
Brahminy Kite,
White-bellied Sea-Eagle,
Grey-rumped Treeswift,
Ashy Woodpecker,
Pacific Swallow,
Black-naped Oriole and
Eurasian Tree Sparrow.
We are also adding 35 clips from Nepal, recorded by John Gregory, who
is bringing the following ten new species for the project:
Snow Pigeon,
Brown Accentor,
White-bellied Redstart,
Grandala,
Little Forktail,
Variegated Laughingthrush,
Scaly-breasted Wren-Babbler,
Immaculate Wren-Babbler,
White-tailed Nuthatch and
Fire-tailed Sunbird, as well as another nineteen:
Himalayan Monal,
Oriental Turtle-Dove,
White Wagtail,
Rosy Pipit,
Brown Dipper,
Alpine Accentor,
Long-billed Thrush,
White-collared Blackbird,
White-capped Redstart,
Plumbeous Redstart,
Spotted Laughingthrush,
Chestnut-tailed Minla,
Rufous Sibia,
Black-throated Tit,
Grey-backed Shrike,
Yellow-billed Chough,
Large-billed Crow and
Collared Grosbeak.
3 May 2007
Today we are including the first videos from our new British contributor John Corder. John is a member of the World Pheasant Association and has sent us a number of extraordinary videos, deemed so either due to the impressiveness of the displays shown, the rarity of the species or both factors. We start with videos of the courtship display of the Great Argus and the Temminck's Tragopan, no doubt amongst the most spectacular displays in the animal world!
18 April 2007
This Wednesday we are posting 8 videos showing the complete courtship display of a male
Houbara Bustard, taken by Josep del Hoyo near Missour, Morocco. Don't miss them!
27 March 2007
Threatened Birds of Colombia. Today we add videos of nine species recorded by Josep del Hoyo during his recent trip to Colombia. All of them are new for the IBC, in practice they are all Colombian endemics and, sadly, they are all threatened. Specifically, they are Critically Endangered Yellow-eared Parrot, the Endangered Bogota Rail, Santa Marta Parakeet, Black Inca, White-mantled Barbet, Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant, Apolinar's Wren and
Red-bellied Grackle and the Vulnerable Turquoise Dacnis-Tanager.
26 March 2007
Today we have a batch of videos taken by Nick Athanas, one of the top bird guides of the well-known travel company Tropical Birding. Nick normally takes still pictures through digiscoping, but, when possible, he also takes video clips with his photo camera, with very good results as you can see. We encourage all digiscopers to also take clips of video and to contribute them to the IBC!
The videos presented today are of
Red-bellied Macaw,
Hellmayr's Parakeet,
Reddish Hermit,
Ringed Woodpecker,
Rufous-breasted Leaftosser,
Ferruginous-backed Antbird and
Araripe Manakin
taken in Brazil,
Yellow-throated Toucan
filmed in Ecuador,
Bar-crested Antshrike,
Pale-eyed Thrush and
Red-bellied Grackle
recorded in Colombia and
Andean Slaty-Thrush shot in Argentina.
19 March 2007
We are happy to announce that today we are launching the new look and improved quality of the videoclips that will be posted on the IBC from now on! For more information on this please go to "Improving video quality".
We have two batches of videos. One was recorded last month in Colombia by Josep del Hoyo in High Definition (HD) Video. The species presented are:
Panama Flycatcher,
Cinnamon Woodpecker,
Palm Tanager,
Collared Araçari,
Yellow-hooded Blackbird,
Common Tody-Flycatcher,
House Wren,
Cinnamon Flycatcher,
Hairy Hermit,
Bare-crowned Antbird,
Tropical Mockingbird and
Buff-rumped Warbler.
The second batch comes from Australia, with videos recorded by Geoff Dabb in Standard Definition (SD) Video. You will see how the quality has also improved dramatically with our new High Quality rendering system. The species included are:
Australian Owlet-Nightjar,
White-winged Fairywren,
Splendid Fairywren and
Variegated Fairywren.
22 December 2006
As we did last year with Ethiopia, today we start uploading videos from Josep del Hoyo's trip to Uganda, which we will be posting in batches every Friday going locality by locality following the chronological order of the trip. We will officially set off on the itinerary on 5 January, but today we offer a sneak preview of what is in store with a selection of videos taken during the first days of the trip. The species videoed are:
Denham's Bustard,
Rock Pratincole,
Diederik Cuckoo,
Rufous-sided Broadbill,
Green-breasted Pitta,
Mosque Swallow,
Silverbird,
Cassin's Flycatcher,
Puvel's Illadopsis,
Golden-backed Weaver,
Jameson's Antpecker and
Grey-headed Negrofinch.
Tune in every Friday to check out this material, totalling over 400 species, including many new ones for the IBC and a high proportion of the Albertine Rift edemics.
Any contributors who have extensive footage from a trip and would like to post it on the IBC in a way similar to Josep del Hoyo's Ethiopian and Ugandan itineraries, please contact us by email (ibc@hbw.com) to find out how to achieve this!
With the inclusion of a video of Plains-wanderer taken by Peter Nash in Australia, we add a new family to the IBC! We now have only 11 families out of 201 remaining to be covered.
Finally, we have a very special video from Brooke Clibbon filmed in New Zealand of New Zealand Storm-Petrel, a form that has been rediscovered recently after being considered Extinct!
More information is given by BirdLife International.
24 November 2006
Today we have a very special new contributor! The Yanayacu Biological Station in Ecuador led by Harold Greeney has been researching the breeding biology of many bird species, most of them for the first time, for a number of years now. They do this by continuously videoing the species' nests and have decided to upload some of the most interesting clips to the IBC and, like this, make them accessible openly to everyone! In this first batch we are including six species, all new for the IBC, specifically
Sickle-winged Guan,
Bicolored Antvireo,
Long-tailed Antbird,
Scaled Antpitta,
Long-wattled Umbrellabird and
Grass-green Tanager,
but they have already sent us material of many more species, which will be posted regularly from now on. We at the IBC are very grateful to the Yanayacu Biological Station as this sort of contribution is making the project even richer from a scientific and general point of view.
20 October 2006
TARGET REACHED!
With the inclusion of today's clips the IBC now holds a collection of videos of 3000 species! Also, we are preparing footage received from our growing group of contributors of several hundred more species so we can be certain that the 4000 species mark is not outside our grasp. If you have videos to contribute, please contact us and help this project become more useful for everyone!
3 April 2006
Today 2 more families are represented on the IBC! With these, 185 families (more than 92%!) are covered. This is thanks to Rigdon Currie's video of Shoebill taken in Uganda and Steve Blain's footage of Near threatened Schlegel's Asity taken in Madagascar.
20 February 2006
Last year Josep del Hoyo spent 4 days in Paraná, Brazil, and took video of some interesting species. We will be including several of them each week starting today with Long-tufted Screech-Owl,
Restinga Tyrannulet and
Marsh Antwren.
15 February 2006
Today, like we have been doing for a few weeks with Ethiopia, we are going to begin presenting videos from another of Josep del Hoyo's trips, this time to Bolivia. We will also travel from locality to locality, chronologically following the trip's itinerary, including all at once the videos taken in each point of the trip. The reason that we are using this speedy method of introduction with Josep's videos is because he has sent us another large batch of edited and documented videos of over a thousand species, most of which we still do not have represented on the IBC. The series from Bolivia will include a good number of species that are rare, localized, endemic and/or threatened. This week, before we begin with the first locality, we will be including a sample of videos as a preview. You can see videos of Titicaca Flightless Grebe (restricted to this lake), Red-fronted Macaw (one of the Bolivian endemics) and Wattled Curassow (recently rediscovered after more than 50 years without any record). Of course, smaller birds will also be well represented, and, as examples, we have included the Spot-bellied Puffbird, Crested Hornero and Short-tailed Finch.
13 January 2006 A wealth of Ethiopian bird videos!
Josep del Hoyo, Christian Boix, Solomon Berhe, Jordi Sargatal and Dolors Buxó returned right before the holidays from a pioneering Tropical Birding expedition to Ethiopia, covering some remote localities. Josep del Hoyo took video of over 400 species on this trip! We will be including these videos in the IBC by adding every Friday all of the videos taken in one locality following the chronological order of the trip. We will start next Friday with videos taken near Addis-Ababa and Gefersa reservoir. The complete series will contain many threatened, endemic, localised and rare species and will include some videos of high behavioural interest.
To give you a taste of what these videos will include, today we are posting six videos from the set. Three are of threatened and very rare endemic birds: Ankober Serin, Ruspoli's Turaco and Sidamo Lark. Also, as a sample of interesting behaviours, we are including a video of a pair of Grey Kestrels copulating, a video of a Nubian Woodpecker taking a long bath and, finally, a video of the extraordinary Stresemann's Bush Crow revealing a very curious foraging technique.
19 November 2005
We have another special addition! In this case, we are posting videos of 49 species of waterfowl, including 19 which are new for the IBC. Of special interest are the following globally threatened species:
Madagascar Teal,
Baikal Teal,
South Georgia Pintail,
Laysan Mallard,
Ferruginous Duck,
Red-breasted Goose,
Hawaiian Goose,
White-winged Wood Duck,
Blue Duck,
Marbled Teal and
White-headed Duck.
19 November 2005
4 new families covered by the IBC! German contributor, Thorsten Stegmann, has sent various videos of very interesting species taken in captivity. Several are from families that are not yet represented on the IBC. The species shown are:
Madagascar Blue-Pigeon,
Pitta-like Ground-Roller,
Blue Coua,
Sickle-billed Vanga,
Cuckoo Roller,
Madagascar Crested Ibis,
Kagu and
Long-tailed Ground-Roller.
Although videos taken in the wild are always preffered, we encourage our contributors to also send videos taken in captivity, as many of them may be of high interest for the ornithological and birdwatching communities.
11 October 2005
Today we include several videos of high behavioural interest taken by Josep del Hoyo in a very recent trip to Peru. Some show two males of Torrent Duck performing a spectacular display, while the rest are from the largest known lek of Andean Cock-of-the-rock, at the lodge of the same name.
13 September 2005
Ethiopian endemic birds! Job Roig has just sent us some great videos
from his trip to Ethiopia. We are posting four endemic birds:
Wattled Ibis,
Spot-breasted Lapwing,
Blue-winged Goose and
Thick-billed Raven.
12 August 2005
Today we are posting a video of Endangered species Jocotoco Antpitta recorded by Peter Nash in Ecuador. This species was discovered in 1997.
26 July 2005
We are posting one video of Vulnerable species Austral Rail recorded by Santiago Imberti in Argentina.
12 June 2005
Today we are posting a number of videos taken by Josep del Hoyo. A few are recent ones, including one recorded today! It is of a nightingale, species that this year has made us happy by nesting inside our garden, where, as you will see, some delicacies are provided! From last month, there are videos of two species recorded at Iguazú Falls, the Black-throated Trogon and the Roadside Hawk, fishing! Then, from several years ago, almost at the beginning of recording bird videos, there are a number of them from Sichuan, China, including species like the Black-necked Crane, Tibetan Partridge and the enigmatic Tibetan Ground-Jay, recently reclassified as Ground Tit, and from the Seychelles Islands, of which we highlight those of Sooty Tern in a colony with more than a million birds, and the endemic Seychelles Bulbul, Seychelles Fody and the Critically Endangered Seychelles Magpie-Robin.
22 May 2005
We are again posting a higher than usual number of new videos, to speed up the IBC's growth. We include clips recorded a few days ago by Josep del Hoyo during a short visit to Paraguay, of the following species: Spotted Nothura, Whistling Heron, Squirrel and Guira Cuckoos, Yellow-fronted Woodpecker, Campo Flicker, Chalk-browed Mockingbird, Plush-crested Jay and Red-rumped Cacique. We also include videos taken several years ago, of Belcher's Gull, Peruvian Seaside Cinclodes and Fasciated Antshrike in Peru, and of European White Stork and Audouin's Gull in Spain. Finally, we post several videos taken in captivity. Although we of course prefer good videos of birds recorded in the wild, we think that in many cases clips of birds in collections may be very useful for the purposes of this project. In this case, the species represented are the Southern Cassowary, which covers another new family for the IBC, the Critically Endangered White-winged Guan, the Speckled Chachalaca, the Wattled Guan and the Pale-winged Trumpeter.
6 May 2005
We are finalising the posting of the videos taken by Josep del Hoyo during his last two-week trip to Ecuador in February of this year. Some videos of special note are those of a male Club-winged Manakin performing its striking courtship display and of the rare and threatened Tanager Finch. There are also eye-catching videos of 20 species of hummingbirds, specifically of White-whiskered Hermit, Green-fronted Lancebill, Brown Violet-ear, Sparkling Violet-ear, Green Thorntail, Blue-tailed Emerald, Green-crowned Woodnymph, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Andean Emerald, Purple-chested Hummingbird, Fawn-breasted Brilliant, Empress Brilliant, Green-crowned Brilliant, Buff-tailed Coronet, Brown Inca, Gorgeted Sunangel, Purple-bibbed Whitetip, Booted Racket-tail, Violet-tailed Sylph and Purple-throated Woodstar. Finally, there are videos of 38 more species: Double-toothed Kite, Dusky Pigeon, Maroon-tailed Parakeet, Lyre-tailed Nightjar, White-eyed Trogon, Collared Aracari, Olivaceous Piculet, Black-cheeked Woodpecker, Golden-olive Woodpecker, Crimson-mantled Woodpecker, Pale-legged Hornero, Immaculate Antbird, Andean Cock-of-the-rock, Golden-winged Manakin, Black Phoebe, Masked Water-Tyrant, Bright-rumped Attila, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Rusty-margined Flycatcher, Golden-crowned Flycatcher, White-thighed Swallow, Southern Rough-winged Swallow, Swainson's Thrush, Slate-throated Redstart, Russet-crowned Warbler, Three-striped Warbler, Dusky Bush-Tanager, Flame-rumped Tanager, Moss-backed Tanager, Orange-bellied Euphonia, Golden Tanager, Variable Seedeater, Yellow-bellied Seedeater, White-sided Flowerpiercer, White-winged Brush-Finch, Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch, Rufous-collared Sparrow and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
4 April 2005
400+ SPECIES FROM BRAZIL! Josep del Hoyo has made several trips
to Brazil in the last couple of years. These trips have resulted in
videos of more than 400 species, most of which are new to the IBC. It
will take a while to edit and post all of them, but we want to give
you a sneak peek at some of the most interesting ones. Highlighted
among them are several videos of the Critically Endangered
Brazilian Merganser,
which is one of the first times that quality video of this almost mythical
species has been obtained. You will also find good footage of
Red-legged Seriema,
Golden-capped Parakeet,
White-barred Piculet,
Brasilia Tapaculo,
Pin-tailed Manakin,
Sharp-tailed Tyrant,
Grey-backed Tachuri,
Cock-tailed Tyrant and
Streamer-tailed Tyrant.
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