10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. In a second, it disappeared into trees, down towards a rocky gorge, but not before I spotted it. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird.

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 263

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JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. During the Pleistocene, Dholes were found across the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, sharing their space with sabre-toothed cats. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings are cold.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 233

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In Pukka’s Promise, Kerasote travels the dog world in Europe and throughout North America interviewing breeders, veterinarians, and leaders of the animal-welfare movement, and uses cutting-edge research to help dog owners rethink the everyday choices they make for their pets. Just leave a comment on this post before midnight on March 1, 2013.

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Dogs Animal Welfare Lifestyle North America 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

A somewhat more credible selection to be sure, as lions actually do exist, but one that sadly snubs the native Scottish wildcat in favor of a felid that’s been extinct in Europe since antiquity. Luckily, we needn’t wander into such whimsical territory to find Scotland’s putative national bird.

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Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

This revelation shocked me when I first read it, but as it it turns out the troupial is not one of those next parasites and lays and leaves like North American cowbirds and cuckoos in Europe. Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them. Birds orioles'

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Here’s his third stop: In June of 2013, we arrived in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland, and our third destination on our European getaway. Trips Europe Finland' Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

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Finland Estonia Birds Europe 163

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Talking of gulls, I had a new meeting with an old acquaintance, the Black-headed Gull ringed in 2013 in the north of the country that I already met twice in 2015 and now again – I even recognized its ring because the combination of letters sounds a bit like “Yahoo”.

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Owls Greece Serbia Woodpeckers 104

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Published by the National Park in 2013. Serbia, the Bradt Travel Guide by Laurence Mitchell, 4th edition, 2013 (offers extensive coverage of birding sites by yours truly). Trips birdfinder Europe Serbia' Recommended books: (Bilingual coffee table book): “Ptice Djerdapa/Birds of Djerdap” by B. Milovanovic and M.

Serbia 184

Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 184

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

This split led to the population that lives around the western Mediterranean in Europe and North Africa and to the one described below. . “The oldest split among the currently recognized P. porphyrio lineage occurred in the Late Miocene (~6 mya),” the authors write. The western Mediterranean birds are bluish-purple all over.

Papua New Guinea 189

Papua New Guinea Philippines New Zealand Florida 189

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.

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Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 101

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

But the real rarities here were the fourth record of Great Black-backed Gull (several observations in winter of 2013-14) and the sixth record of Pallas’s Gull for Serbia (in frozen February 2012). Trips birdfinder Europe Serbia' Pygmy Cormorants are regular, occasionally a White-tailed Eagle and during cold spells, Goosanders.

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Serbia Birds Ducks Eagles 228

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In December 2013, we already had 2200 birds. Conservation cormorants Europe Pygmy Cormorant Serbia' Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs. Four fifths were gone! Yet, they are nothing if not resilient. Now I am curious: How many did we counted today??

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2013

“Birder is what birder do” they say, and so I happily returned to the area of the Red-breasted Goose fail three months later, in February 2013, full of the optimism that a new year (and having beaten Corey in the year list competition) brings. No, I also have no idea what caused that eerie and unnatural blue background.

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Germany Birds Pandas Kittens 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

Such actions were performed here and have reduced mortality and significantly increased breeding success: in 2013, over 190 youngsters successfully left the 130 nests on the artificial platforms at Lake Kerkini. Trips Europe Greece pelicans' The Lake Kerkini chapter starts with page 48. My Lake Kerkini eBird list.

Greece 161

Greece Pelicans Breeding Buffalo 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011). The Collins guide covers all of Europe, contains drawings rather than photographs, and is widely considered one of the best field guides in the world. (It’s I wish they had provided more background on how this guide came about and what each of their contributions was.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 141

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Belgrade City Environmental Secretariat accepted the initiative and the Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia produced the study and the proposal for the protection of 1860 ha / 4600 ac of the Danube backwaters in 2013.

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Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That would be Terns of Europe and North America by Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson, published in 1995, another fantastic book, but out-of-print and in need of an update. A table of contents listing species or a pictorial key on the inside front cover would make life much easier for the eager birder in search of identification.

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North America America Species Groups 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2019

From there, we continue along a well maintained dirt track, where one Eurasian Blackcap awaits on a bush by the road and a few Barn Swallows are chasing insects… In the bush around us commonly grows the only indigenous palm of Europe – dwarf fan palm (below), barely reaching the car window height. In the valleys below, are small pine forests.

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Terrapins Eagles Europe Rats 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2016

First, most of Europe’s owl species are breeding in Germany anyway and are better found at other times of the year. Then however, the winter of 2013/14 brought a major eruption and rained down at least 15 Northern Hawk Owls upon us.

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Germany Owls 2013 2006 102

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APRIL 6, 2021

212) who trap, follow, and analyze the migration paths of Snowy Owls, a project founded in 2013, the magic year of the Snowy Owl irruption. This includes, to my delight, a brief account of Project SNOWstorm , a collaboration of volunteer “researchers, banders, wildlife veterinarians, and pathologists” (p.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

I didn’t know much about Birds of Paradise either before 2013, when I accompanied a non-birding friend to a presentation at a local college, not really expecting much. Princeton University Press, 2020 (published in Europe by Helm). It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. 151 color photos.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

I feel certain that, given Tennessee’s 18-year track record of celebrating cranes in a tremendously successful festival, the opposition will only be stronger in 2013. TWRC’s response to the outcry was a two-year stay on the proposed season.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I had heard about this book before my trip, but it had not been published in the United States or Europe yet. This is based on the excellent The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia by Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight, but on the 8th, 2007 edition, not the 9th, 2013 edition, according to the app notes.

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 231

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

There is a Linnet at Kissena Corridor Park in Queens, and though I bird this park regularly, the Linnet, a bird regularly found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and also named in a sweet song by Stephen Sondheim (Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeny Todd) has eluded me. Crossley Books/Princeton University Press, 2013. color plates.

Ireland 170

Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

But, irruptive species like Blue-footed Booby, that may in some years, as we know from the invasion of 2013, show up in numbers greater than five, are included. Species that were once seen rarely and have now become more common, like Clay-colored Thrush, are not included. Neither are rare subspecies.

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North America America Birds United States 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The organization is the same as The Crossley Guide: Raptors (PUP, 2013): photographic plates and brief text in the first half and extensive “Written Accounts” in the second half. Sullivan, 2013, PUP).

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 115