Peter Kaestner - The number one eBirder of the World.

In this episode I talk with Peter Kaestner about birding India and the Taj Mahal - one of the New 7 wonders. We aso talk a fair bit about the Antpitta hunt that Peter did in Peru with Kolibri Expeditions, about eBird and little bit about some great field guides and apps that Peter recommends.

Peter Kaestner is a former peace corps worker and diplomat, who served for extended time in countries like India, Afghanistan, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Namibia and Malaysia. While serving he also worked on his birdlist visiting remote places and seeing many birds.  He is now the top eBirder of the world with 9419 species seen.

Complete show-notes can be found on https://7wondersbirding.com/peter-kaestner/.

Tools for new birders.

Ebird app

Merlin app

Recommended Field Guides

Lynx Birds of  Colombia Field Guide.

2nd edition of Miles McMullan's Field Guide of Birds of Colombia

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago the Greater Sundas and Wallacea (Lynx Editions)

Papua New Guinea (Lynx)

Birds of the World (Lynx)

Connect with Peter.

Facebook

Ebird 

Intro Music. "Rondo alla turca, from Sonata K. 331" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and performed by Markus Staab, available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

The music at the end is from Bird Party from my band Guran Guran.