10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. At least one birder will now likely grab his war hammer and check flight availabilities from New York to Frankfurt as well as average prison sentences in Germany for first degree murder. Here in Germany, we have them. Yes, some birders may frown at this statement.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2013
Seeing 525 species was nice, as was the fact that I birded in four countries, nine of the fifty states in the United States, and fifty-one counties. I had some goals for this year as well, goals which I laid out in the introduction to my 2012 year list. Finally, my 2012 Year List easily exceeded the 500 species I had hoped to see.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
I started keeping year lists – not just blogging about them but really keeping track of what I see each year – as late as 2012, roughly 30 years into my birding career. Therefore, the 2012 list itself was never the focus of my year listing, it was competition and blogging. Species List. February. […].
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2016
I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s most attractive and desired bird species: the Great Bustard Otis tarda. Now that I might have wetted your appetite, here’s where and how to find them in Germany: 1.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2013
The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2012 ) and that their systematic position is “highly unstable” ( Wang et al. Mousebirds are social fruit-eaters that dangle precariously at odd angles in tight clumps, feet spread wide and long tails often splayed. 2011 ) across different types of analyses.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2013
We, the people of Germany, have had enough of this nonsense. I can expect a few new species for my year list once I arrive at my new home in the northern Hoggar mountains, which makes the entire process fine with me. Birds Germany magpies weather' No seriously. However, I will certainly miss old friends from home.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2013
Here in Germany, we are currently experiencing the darkest winter on record, since sunlight hours were first recorded in 1951. Eurasian Sparrowhawk contemplating species-reassignment surgery to join the migratory flocks of Levant Sparrowhawks that spend the winter in sub-Saharan Africa. . The Twite light Saga – Breaking Yawn.
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