10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo.

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 206

Critter News

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. The campaign also used tactics such as false allegations of paedophilia against managers of the supply companies, and posting sanitary towels to their homes saying the blood was contaminated with the AIDS virus.

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Animal Rights Europe Rights Animal Cruelty 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

"Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, concluded. "We

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Switzerland Species Spain Mammals 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

It has been seen near Luzern (85 km away) in Switzerland, so it is not a very local bird at all. Because of all the places it could have called its winter home, it chose the Rhine separating Huningue and Weil am Rhein, the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany. And requirement four, the one to never return?

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Switzerland Germany France Ducks 123

Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 6, 2022

submitted by /u/ananovanews [link] [comments].

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Switzerland Koalas Zoos Species 52

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Another great example of a little bird book is, yes, Little Bird , written by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine, recently brought over from Switzerland and translated by Enchanted Lion Books. This beautiful book, an a import from Switzerland, is a joy to look at and read.

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Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

The Italian Sparrow is not entirely confined to Italy but – not surprisingly – also occurs in neighbouring areas of Austria and Switzerland. Anyway, this current taxonomic classification has interesting implications to German birders.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Michael Kessler, born in Peru and currently working in Switzerland, has researched birds, plants, and overall biodiversity in Bolivia and South America, and, his bio says, fulfilled a lifelong dream by contributing his artwork.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009). The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years. The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 160

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Sharon McEachern has a blog post about animal rights in Switzerland.

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Rights Switzerland For Animals Animal 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

25 well-known scientists, philosophers and politicians from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States informed in a comprehensible manner and on a high level about the current status on animal ethics studies, answered open questions and introduced their approaches.

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Germany Animal Ethics Switzerland Netherlands 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It turned out Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who just completed his PhD in Lausanne (Switzerland). Quite a few rarely visited spots and rarely seen birds landed in our inboxes, which prompted me to ask Raphael more about his tour and how he prepared it without asking any local birder for advice.

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Serbia Switzerland Farming Birds 139

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Visiting the continent after the end of most of the autumn migration meant that the number of bird species I could see in northern France, Switzerland, southern Germany, and Austria was much reduced. As I mentioned last week, my wife, son, and daughter-in-law spent much of the month of October in Europe.

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Austria Switzerland Europe Geese 126

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I live in New York; I’ve also lived in Maine and Switzerland. I landed in Tulsa on a Saturday, and later that night Kim told me the presentation I was scheduled to give the following afternoon might be sparsely attended, if not canceled, because of the approaching snowstorm. Snowstorm? ” You’re in Oklahoma ,” she replied.

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Tulsa Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Wildlife 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

Switzerland: The Armchair Tick Award Cause I’m a Terrible Birder Award. So I award this spot to the endemic White-cheeked Turacos I saw in Ethiopia and can’t help feel were robbed by the choughs. Botswana: I Still Have No Idea Award. Southern White-faced Owl or African Scops Owl ? I still have no idea. What the hell is this?

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United Arab Emirates Ethiopia 2016 New Zealand 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). The country list (which also includes Principalities, Territories, Special Administrative Regions, Autonomuos States, Kingdoms, Caliphates, etc.) has reached 54.

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2019 China Battery Jamaica 117

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.

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Hungary Eggs Fox India 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Birders there had to invent games to make seeing a scaup interesting: Because of all the places it could have called its winter home, it chose the Rhine separating Huningue and Weil am Rhein, the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany.

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Ducks New Zealand France Germany 212

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

With Corey’s February jollies to The Bahamas (when he should have been at home looking for GGOs), Lichtenstein, Austria and Switzerland our country/province/principality/kingdom/territory list has swollen to 37. Lists from nine countries have been shared this month with Cuba appearing for the first time.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 133