https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026-08-01T14:14:00+00:00Darren Bankshttps://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/07/cuckoo-gok-umea.html2026-08-01T14:14:00+00:00

For years the cuckoo was a sound, not a bird. The call carries a long way and seems to move about, coming from different directions, so you never quite fix where it is…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/08/blog-post.html2026-07-31T15:20:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/kvarken-log-test.html2026-06-20T18:42:57.097000+00:00

Kvarken Log test scan. June 2026. I've been building a field tool for the Godzilla expedition. A GoPro placed on the bow takes a photograph every 60 seconds through the…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/sandpiper-drillsnappa.html2026-06-19T14:52:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/memory-without-landmarks-part1.html2026-06-11T10:35:56.672000+00:00

A slender-billed nutcracker working a cone in the stone pines, Teg, 2025. Over the last five years I have spent time photographing the slender-billed nutcrackers in…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/imagining-godzilla-residency-trip.html2026-06-03T10:42:19.842000+00:00

The catamaran Godzilla. Photo: Tivon Rice / I magining Godzilla . I've been selected to join Imagining Godzilla for a four-day leg this summer. The residency is run by…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/inget-annat-blommor.html2026-06-02T09:30:09.077000+00:00

Foto: Simon Gran Danielsson Granskog faller ljudlöst ned från himlen. — Jan Wolf-Watz Colin Egglestons Long Weekend (1978) följer ett australiskt par som behandlar ett…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/05/i-saved-png-image-to-bird.html2026-05-21T11:32:16.204000+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/05/treecreeper-tradkrypare.html2026-05-19T12:13:57.780000+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/05/boids.html2026-05-17T14:43:57.930000+00:00

Craig Reynolds developed the Boids program in 1986 and published his seminal paper "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model" in 1987 at the ACM…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/04/slavonian-grebes-podiceps-auritus.html2026-04-24T15:52:00+00:00

I've got just the place for low-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses! It's perfect! Just what we…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/03/blog-post.html2026-03-16T10:54:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/02/my-friends-eurasian-jay-of-harrsele.html2026-02-11T13:58:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/02/hunting-white-backed-woodpecker-2026.html2026-02-05T14:33:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/11/sepale-bird-sanctuary.html2025-11-27T18:14:45.404000+00:00

Recently I’ve had the pleasure of spending some time with the artist Ana Kun , who is based in Timișoara. In her own words: “My practice takes me to both art shows and…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/11/speak-bird-speak-seeds-birds-and-memory_8.html2025-11-08T15:07:00+00:00

When artist Areej Huniti visited Umeå as part of the IASPIS residency, I attended her talk at the artist-run gallery Verkligheten and spent time in conversation with her…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/10/birders-of-palestine.html2025-10-28T16:42:00+00:00

A heartfelt initiative supporting Palestinian birdwatchers — especially in Gaza and the West Bank — who continue to document wildlife despite the toughest of…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/10/eurobirdportalorg.html2025-10-20T12:35:00+00:00

This interactive map from EuroBirdPortal.org shows the migration and distribution of Bohemian Waxwings ( BOMGAR ) over the last 52 weeks. Counts: The map displays…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/09/between-moon-tides-hacking-nature-to.html2025-09-22T12:18:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/09/the-loons-of-nydalasjon-umea_12.html2025-09-12T16:26:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/09/notkraka.html2025-08-28T19:38:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/06/the-white-reindeer.html2025-06-30T14:17:00+00:00

Our encounter with a white reindeer on Ratan Island in Västerbotten County is a poignant reminder of the deep connection between the Sámi people and their land. The…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2025/05/the-black-woodpecker-family-haga-umea.html2025-05-29T09:27:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2024/07/the-open-vertebrate-project.html2024-07-31T09:01:00+00:00

The openVertebrate project, oVert for short, is an initiative to provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students, and the…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2024/07/httpswwwearthspeciesorgblog.html2024-07-28T18:53:00+00:00

Our work to decode communication of other species builds on the extraordinary advances we are seeing in AI being applied to human language, which we are extending to the…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2024/01/the-white-backed-woodpecker-2024.html2024-01-11T19:45:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2024/01/willow-tit-botsmark.html2024-01-10T17:14:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2023/11/move-bank.html2023-11-20T18:34:00+00:00

ICARUS stands for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space . Scientists taking part in the ICARUS initiative are working together to study the behavior…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2023/09/jay-gransjon-umea.html2023-09-17T14:05:00.005000+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2023/09/juvenile-peregrine-falcon-dorset-uk.html2023-09-17T13:55:00+00:00