Birding in the most unknown region of Italy

[@chiaratalia_wild]

But I also want to hear from you! Do you have a birding patch and where it is? 🔽

[@torinkyifh5085]

Yes, I had found a little campsite someone made down the bank of a river that is near my home. I often sit under the trees and watch the mallards play around :)

[@PaweWarownyCznk]

Yes, i have local patch near my house in Lublin, Poland. It's a place in the middle of the city, but in 3 years I saw 85 species there Friendly feedback: Your voice, the chirping of sparrows and the music all at once - it's a huge editing mistake.

[@tonyesposito66]

Hey Chiara, I have lived in the UK from 1966 from when I was just 40 days old, but I was born in Ripabottoni, a tiny village in the Molise region, I have not been back for 30 years, but travel the world for wildlife photography especially birds, never thought of going back to do this.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Hey Tony, it is incredible to realise how much the world is small! My village is just about 40 km away from Ripabottoni, but oh well everything is close in such a small region as Molise! If you are into wildlife photography if you consider coming back down here I would recommend to combine the visit with the neighbouring region Abruzzo and explore its national parks!

[@tonyesposito66]

@@chiaratalia_wild Wow only 40km wouldn't be surprised if I have been there, I used to visit regular when I was younger, most of my family still live there, I didn't go anywhere in the summer and my aunt was trying to get me to visit, I said are you trying to kill me I don't do heat at 46 degrees 🤣🤣 But I really must try and go back and definitely visit the national parks, but I have so much on my bucket list and not enough holidays. Great videos by the way 😀

[@MrTmiket0007]

Hello from New York City, thanks so much for sharing a very nice video and information about Italy 🐦👍🤗

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks so much for watching! 😍

[@sirdaggoo]

Ma che bello, complimenti! Qui nelle marche la tortora selvatica quest'anno é quasi spartita...

[@NikkoWildBirds]

I really enjoyed your video of birdwatching in Italy. Thank you for introducing us about the world I didn't know. It's so much fun to see bird watching landscapes around the world. I'm looking forward to the next video distribution.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks so much for watching! I'll be back to Italy early spring and I'll make a follow up 🤩

[@shreecreativearts5132]

Sparrows are everywhere,thanks for sharing 👍

[@chiaratalia_wild]

and they are so underrated!!!

[@neddelamatre9572]

Good advice on local birding. Greetings from Ohio, U.S.A.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks for watching!😍

[@andek_foto]

Hi Chiara, just found your channel while I was searching for birding in Sicily videos..gathering information for a 5 week trip to Sicily in the Fall of 2024. Looking forward to more of your videos.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Wow, that's amazing! Sicily is an amazing place!! Enjoy your trip!

[@ivan11cast]

Wow so many neat species. I live in Texas so all of the birds on your video are new to me. Love the rollers and red footed falcons wow. Nice birding patch 🙂 i have some here as well that are great for locals and migrants

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Each corner of the world has its own special bird life :)

[@michaelball6309]

Winderful video! Thank you so much for posting it :)

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Glad you enjoyed it!☺

[@seforadinucci3451]

Che bel giretto 😍 Il tuo local patch (abitanti compresi ahah) ha molto in comune col mio! Comunque mi fanno troppo ridere i passerotti sardi, sono proprio buffi nei movimenti 😂 Hai pure l'averla cenerina 😯🔝

[@Fotografiamo3.0]

Hi Chiara Welcome home. Beautiful explanation of our bird specimens and the difference with the same non-Italian species. Well done

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks so much! 😍

[@joncothranphotography9375]

Looks like a great place to go birding! Thanks!

[@lyndalewit2510]

This is an informative and well done video. Thanks

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks for your kind words :)

[@ammadoux]

beautiful. thanks so much for sharing. European rollers are passing by Jeddah (where i live) now but not in my local patch. just today i had nightingale, not sure if common or thrush but mostly i get thrush or oriental. i have now blackcap came yesterday and whitethroat. around the city lots of yellow grey and citrine wagtails. in my local patch have recorded 70+ species in 22 years18 are present all year others are either summer or winter visitors. and lots of birds passing. the spanish sparrow came only once 6 years ago. thanks again for you lovely video . wish i can visit the area you said. love the Sardinian warbler saw it in Sharm alsheikh once. but we get its Asian cousin Menetreis's warbler as winter visitor.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks so much for sharing about your local patch. It sounds as a great place 😍

[@kevinbatesphoto]

It's a nice list for your local bird patch! Mine is when I go home to Eastern Ontario. It's the countryside too, so it's nice to see some different species than downtown Montreal :)

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Hey Kevin, thanks for sharing. And apologies for the super late answer :)

[@windyface9383]

I'm birding in Québec city, my local birding path is along the Saint-Charles river, where they've planted the river banks very nicely! Springtime brings us a large variety of little migratory birds, ducks, cormorants, even herons.

[@SerPedons]

Ciao Chiara! a very nice video with a lot of interesting tips for wildlife photography. I usually do macro photography to flowers, insects, dragonflies and so on, but since a few month I've started my new adventure to bird photography. I'm going to be familiar with some woods in Piedmont, maybe they will probably be my birding patches. Thanks for this beautiful video!!! ps: quando hai detto "molisn't" e "mimi&coco" mi hai fatto scassare! 😀😀😀

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Ciao! :D And good luck with your journey in bird photography and exploring your patches - I am sure you'll enjoy every minute of it!!! PS: Mi fa piacere avere qualche italiano così si colgono i miei riferimenti! Mimì e Cocò è una di quelle cose che non potrei mai trasmettere in un'altra lingua 😀

[@ericg5791]

I live in London. House Sparrows are having a bit of a bad time here in the UK,but maybe stabilising?. it always gives me a pleasure to hear the frantic cacaphony of even a small flock of Sparrows,as that sound is few and far between. On the other hand, Red Kites were re-introduced over the last 25 years or so,after having become persecuted by gamekeepers and landowners to near local extinction, and they have had a roaring success,to the point,even in the suburbs of southwest London,they are the most common birds of prey i see. One of the most common,even more than pigeons,where i live, are Ring-necked,or Rose-ringed, Parakeets One of the noisiest and ,with their emerald green plumage and red beaks,one of the most visible.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thank you for sharing about your local birds :)

[@LuigiNespeca]

Hey Chiara! Molise does exist, really! ;-) Very nice and enjoyable video and your photos are amazing! Ciao

[@chiaratalia_wild]

ahah only a few do believe that 😂! Ciao Luigi, I see we are close enough :) Abruzzo is my second home, as I have studied there :)

[@torinkyifh5085]

What a beautiful place! Thank you for sharing it with us, I would love to go birding here :D

[@chiaratalia_wild]

it is indeed nice :)

[@joaoalmeidawild]

Congrats Chiara, it’s such a lovely video to watch! I hope in the future have more like here 🥰

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Aaah, thanks so much! It was really fun to record it so I hope I will be able to do some more :)

[@Revelationscreation]

My family lives in France and I got there every year and have been birding there for quite a while- its in the charente region and there truly isn't much going on in it however it does hold some fantastic wildlife. Its because there's nothing much going on that wildlife is thriving to such an extent- plus the farmers are using less pesticides which has shown a huge increase in passerine numbers since the last time I visited. Got plenty of lifers and a bunch of species that I had only seen a few times before.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

It sounds very similar to my area! It is wonderful to hear you are seeing some resilience from the species! Nature very easily can claim its space back - if we just let it!

[@andrewkeir2282]

Hi Chiara... lovely video ... The Rainbow BeeEater has been a bird I have wanted to photograph for years, on our recent trip to the Daintree in FNQ, Australia, I took a random photo of a bird in a tree and it wasnt until I got back to Melbourne and was culling my photos did I realise it was a RBE. It was very interesting to see the closeness of your local bee eater. Also.... a suggestion.... maybe you could get a 1.4 extender which may make it easier to get good shots of the shy Rollers.. I have one, but I have an R7 and the same RF 100-500 as you, the extra reach of the crop sensor means I rarely use it, but with an R5 it might be worth considering. Love your work. ..

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Hey Andrew, apologies for the late answer! European bee eaters are not very skittish I must say! Regarding the extender, I do have one but use it only very occasionally :D

[@ktowntraceur]

Lovely video! I'm excited to visit Italy in November and do some birding! Other then sound is there a good way you use to tell the Spanish sparrow from the Italian?

[@chiaratalia_wild]

So cool you're visiting Italy! Where will you be? Spanish sparrows are mostly restricted to the Southern regions. Males are very easy to tell apart, as the Spanish sparrows are heavily streaked with black.

[@ktowntraceur]

@@chiaratalia_wild Ok great, thanks for letting me know! I will be in Venice and Rome! :)

[@Revelationscreation]

Many people don't attempt to separate female sparrows and identify them through proximity with whatever species of male sparrow they are with. There was a recent record of an Italian sparrow in an area they don't exist however it was later identified as a hybrid of a pure Spanish sparrow and house sparrow. Basically unless its a male there's no way to be 100% sure and its best left as unsure. Italian sparrows are also not entirely considered a species, their taxonomy is currently being agreed by a bunch of bodies... many people consider them just hybrids between the Spanish and house sparrow that exist due to the ranges of the Spanish and house sparrow overlapping and a lot of crossbreeding occurring.

[@jakereich]

Really interesting and enjoyable video. Thank you!

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@matthew2410]

Brilliant. I love the range of birds in your area. My local partch is south of Chichester in West Sussex.

[@chiaratalia_wild]

What's the most common bird you see in your local patch? 👀🐦

[@michaelball6309]

Any plans to make another video like this one on your next visit? Would be interesting to see the place in winter!

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Thanks for the suggestion! Winter time is very quiet - I am not sure when I'll go back but I will keep it in mind!

[@michaelball6309]

I'd love to see another video like this, regardless of the time of year. Thankyou for taking the time and effort to produce it! @@chiaratalia_wild

[@jorenvandenhoeck7792]

Nice video!! But are there nog breeding common hoopoes in the area?

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Last year I might have seen one but it was so brief that I can't be sure it was it. So although a fairly common species in Italy , it doesn't appear to be that common in my local patch!

[@AnnaMariaArmieri]

I went to Rome a few weeks ago do you get Spanish sparrows there?

[@chiaratalia_wild]

There are a few observations, but the major breeding sites at the moment remain Sicily, Sardinia, Apulia, Molise and a nucleus in the North at the Po Delta.

[@frednorman1]

Hi.. I wonder if you use the eBird app in Italy to tally the number of species, you’ve seen?

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Yes, I use eBird to keep track of the birds I see :)

[@zizzie4081]

Lovely video, thank you! But you don’t need the music, I’d rather just hear the birds. Best music of all!

[@chiaratalia_wild]

I am afraid without music the video will be more boring! But thanks for the feedback :)

[@esbee1177]

Hey! Just found out about your channel. Like it here, will stay. 👋🏻🪶

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Welcome 😍🐦🐦🐦🐦

[@tsaar71]

Luv the video as a birder, but why do you use the music on the background. The corn bunting was almost not to hear because of the backgroundnoise. My tip, cancel the annoying sounds in your video's

[@chiaratalia_wild]

Hello, thanks so much for the feedback! However due to the distance, in that case the corn bunting calling was not really picked up by my mic, hence I used the music!