Birding Babylon

eBird now available for Iraq sightings I have a lot of observations written in my notebooks from my last deployment to Iraq (October 2009 to...

Nature Documentary featuring Iraq A couple of weeks ago the PBS program Nature featured the work of Azzam Alwash and the staff of Nature Ira...

In March when we still had a significant amount of green around our building, with lots of small orange flowers we had a lot of butterflies...

Today we are having a nice dust storm. The White-cheeked Bulbuls around the building were very active today dispite the dismal weather. Thi...

In the past week or so I have been hearing extremly loud clicking sounds coming out of the trees around base. I thought they were either kat...