10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2023

Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

Greece 209

Greece Bulgaria Macedonia Gambia 209

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. I was placed one year with a photograph of little egrets, taken at Kerkini in Greece, while the following year I won the class with a shot of Wryneck, photographed in an orchard in Poland ( above ). Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.)

Estonia 213

Estonia Poland India Pelicans 213

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors.

Birds 224

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2014

And finally, a few years back, I got them in India – at every other wetland. Further north, in Poland, they used to write off all Ruddy Shelducks recorded, assuming they were escapees, until they found one ringed in Kazakhstan! Some ten years ago, I almost found Ruddy Shelducks near Bodrum, in western Turkey.

Serbia 245

Serbia Ducks Poland Kazakhstan 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2023

My winning picture was of a Wryneck, photographed in an apple tree in an orchard in Poland the previous year. Small birds in flight are impossible This digiscoped Kingfisher in India was happy to pose It was on a trip to western Sicily that I was introduced for the first time to the solution.

Birds 240

Birds Cyprus Portugal Estonia 240