Sound Approach Team Discover New Species of Owl...
The Omani Owl – a completely new owl species is discovered in Arabia. A species of owl – completely new to science has been discovered in a remote mountain range...
‘Vedi Hills’, Armenia
The ‘Vedi Hills’, as they are known to birders, form the northern edge of the Araks river valley in Armenia. An arid landscape of moderately sloping, rounded hills with small...
Fuerteventura, Spain
In January 2010, René and Magnus went to the volcanic, desert-like island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands to record some owls. You can see and hear the results in Undiscovered owls....
Buuveit, Mongolia
Around 120 km east of the capital Ulaanbaatar, our first camp at Buuveit was situated in a dramatic landscape of rolling steppe with high rocky outcrops. The steeper hills had...
‘Jalman Meadows’, Mongolia
‘Jalman Meadows’, the final stop on our fantastic May 2008 trip to Mongolia, is situated in an area where steppe and taiga alternate; more larches on north-facing slopes, more steppe...
Gun-Galuut, Mongolia
Tsengiin Burd is a pristine wetland in the Gun-Galuut nature reserve. It is a fantastic place to see cranes. Demoiselle Cranes Grus virgo and the very rare White-naped Crane G vipiobreed here, while a...
Raso, Cape Verde Islands
Raso Lark Alauda razaeis a kind of skylark that somehow got marooned in the Cape Verde archipelago a very long time ago, evolved the ability to survive on little more than...
Dalton Highway, Alaska, USA
The Dalton Highway is the only road from the northern coast of Alaska, USA to the rest of the North American continent. It links Prudhoe Bay on the shores of the Arctic...
Seward Peninsula, Alaska
In June 2004, The Sound Approach went Arctic. While Magnus headed off to the Lena delta in northern Siberia, Arnoud and René made their way to the great wilderness state...
Santiago, Cape Verde Islands
Santiago is the largest of the Cape Verde Islands and home to half of its population. Despite the human pressure, this is still the island that has the highest number...