Chris Townend
@WiseBirding
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Tour leader. Freelance Ornithologist. Lynx obsessed. Owner: https://t.co/Dp47xoJ1Yy & https://t.co/XCoBxFXTYw We donate to conservation too!
DEVON, UK
Joined April 2013
Hearing this male Snow Leopard's call echo around the Mongolian mountains was a real privilege and quite simply spectacular!
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Our Cats, Primates and Birds tour of Bolivia continues with more exciting mammal sightings! However, we always take time to savour the many birds, like this rather smart and very range restricted Bolivian Slaty-Antshrike. Just getting into N Paraguay and SW Brazil too.
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Bolivia 🇧🇴 continues to impress!.Amazing views of this confident male Puma (one of at least 3 different animals seen) was a definite highlight from our time at Kaa-Iya NP. 😍
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Our first day on our Cats, Primates and Birds tour to Bolivia started well with 3 Puma and 1 Jaguarundi!😮 The photo of the Puma won’t win any prizes but gives an idea of the habitat. #WiseBirding
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Many thanks for the message @viv_keene and great to see in daylight! Great find👍🏻 I’m intrigued if this is the same bird I first saw/photographed on 19th May at dusk and then heard / sound recorded on the night of 15th June.🤔 Regardless, well done for finding it.😊.
I've had a brilliant morn. Sat on bank of River Otter from 4.30am. Beavers, Goosander, Kingfisher, Green Woodie etc then, as walking back to car 6.30am. I found a #BlackCrownedNightHeron!! Excited. 😍😃 @DevonWildlife @BirdGuides
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper on your wish list? We have a cancellation for 1 person sharing. Join us in Jan 2026 for this fab birding tour with 15 nights in Thailand:
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Golden Nightjar on your wish list? Last 2 places on our winter break to Senegal in January 2026:
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This is absolutely epic, particularly the first minute! The stressful situation of not “getting onto” a seabird when seawatching!! Total respect to @RunnelStone for being so calm throughout! Plus a huge congratulations to John Foster for finding it!.
Here’s the video of the Porthgwarra, Cornwall Soft-plumaged Petrel on 13 July 2025. Originally found by John Foster at Coverack it was picked up at Porthgwarra by Steve Rogers and also seen there by myself, Pete Clement, Graham Lawlor and John Ryan.
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Hornbills are one of my favourite bird families and we were fortunate to see all 8 species in Sabah, Borneo. These White-crowned Hornbills are really smart with their striking sexual dimorphism.
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Another impressive nocturnal bird whilst looking for cats in Borneo. Large Frogmouth, Kinabatangan River, Borneo
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Barred Eagle Owl at Deramakot Forest Reserve, Borneo was another nice distraction whilst out at night looking mostly for mammals.
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RT @clennonvalley: Due to a very late cancellation of 2places on my 4 hour Coast and River cruise tomorrow from Kingswear #Devon starting a….
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I love searching for tough mammals at night, as you just never know what’s coming next! Despite no hoped for Flat-headed Cat, this beautiful Oriental Bay Owl was a real bonus as we slowly searched the Kinabatangan river at gone midnight. #Borneo
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A rather special moment in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Borneo yesterday.
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RT @DungenessBO: With the good birding continuing into today, why not come stay at Dungeness Bird Observatory this weekend? .
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Otter Estuary NR quiet as expected for June, but an unseasonal female Pintail today. Also now 3 "head-started" Curlews. 2 from Dartmoor & a more recent 3rd bird from either Dorset, Sussex or Kent. Amazing how they find each other. Thanks to @KaneBrides for details. @ClintonDevon
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A man on a roll…. .
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I've written to my MP to demand that the Government adopts a #naturefriendly approach to planning and development. Will you take action too? Help ensure that nature is at the heart of government's #planningreforms
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It’s been so dry recently that even the local beavers are praying for rain!😂River Otter last week, Budleigh Salterton .@DevonBeavers
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A most welcome surprise and patch first yesterday evening as this Night Heron flew around the Otter Estuary NR whilst I was leading a beaver walk 😍
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