10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

On the first day, before the sun was even properly up, I already had one of my target species under my belt: the storied and spectacular White Stork. But I saw some really cool things, and now I am going to tell you all about them! My journey started off in the city of Leon. My life White Stork. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

Spain 169

Spain Europe Industry Rodents 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

Our bogey or nemesis species, birds that we would opt to see over others. Back in the early days of birding with optics, I wonder if such wanted species would have been birds that were much more common in present times. It’s a reminder of how cool that bird really does look, that species and its red, crested counterpart.

Costa Rica 101

Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. Gulls were everywhere as well, but I have never been able to separate Gull species.

DC 187

DC Washington Birds Geese 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. They were there, but I couldn’t see them.

Birds 168

Birds DC Sparrows Canada 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2021

Brasserie au Baron has its origins in a bistro run by the Bailleux family since 1973 in Gussignies, a small French town along that lies along the river Hogneau right at the border with Belgium’s Hainaut province in the Francophone south of that country. The earliest parts of the church date to the Anglo-Saxon era.

France 225

France Eagles Shelters Suffering 225

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

This species is not only usually the earliest, but the most common. What’s remarkable about this species is what we don’t see here: the extremely long migration that this species makes, with some individuals traveling from Sub-Saharan Africa to Greenland and back every year.

Cyprus 145

Cyprus 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship. The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species. Imagine you study history.

Mammals 240

Mammals Europe Groups Family 240

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APRIL 5, 2016

But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. And, the whole question of subspecies, which in the Northeast tends to focus on the Cackling Goose, but which I’m sure is a topic of fascination with other waterfowl species in all other parts of the world. There are the females, so many so brown.

North America 142

North America Asia Europe America 142

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Initiating a hunting season on a large, charismatic species like a crane is no way to resuscitate hunting.

2011 239

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. I will also likely scale back on my birding madness in Germany, and might therefore see less species than I did in the last two years.

2014 145

2014 France Germany Indonesia 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

I found this out last year, on a trip to France with my daughter Sarah. I couldn’t wait to give names to all my new species. I tried using the Internet, but found it frustrating for all the usual reasons; websites either didn’t include all species or were difficult to use for identification.

Ireland 168

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Take the fossil horse Hipparion , found in France and Florida. Clearly this needed explaining, and the explanation that the geologists settled on was that a land bridge has risen up between Florida and France. Indeed it was part of that family. How did it end up in those two places and nowhere else?

Horses 165

Horses France North America Fiji 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Clearly, some scientists should never have been granted the privilege of assigning common names to bird species. And while most of these introduction attempts failed, the species has now become firmly established as a “countable” species in several areas of France and Italy, and even Spain so far as I was able to find out.

Italy 176

Italy Europe France Family 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has documented 596 bird species in the wild as at 1 January 2013; 265 are listed as Accidental, 59 as Scarce Visitor, and 2 as Extinct. Species Accounts are organized into seven chapters based on two major habitats: - Waterbirds—Swimming Waterbirds, Flying Waterbirds, Walking Waterbirds.

Ireland 170

Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

To the birder, this begs the question: what species of birds appear in the Twelve Days of Christmas ? On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: A Partridge in a Pear Tree The partridge, a member of the pheasant family, has been a traditional game bird in England for centuries.

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Turtles 2004 United Kingdom Geese 279