10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation by Paul J. The growth of community bird feeding programs in the 1920’s, for example, is shown to be rooted in post-World War I America prosperity–more spending money, more time, and (this is the part I like) the availability of cheap grain. And conservation.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?

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North America Science America Europe 258

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2020

Not far from its capital Lisbon lies Cabo de Roca, the westernmost point in mainland Europe. Beyond that is the entire expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching some six-hundred leagues west to Newfoundland — and even further to the mainland shores of North America.

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2015 Portugal France Europe 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Now, it is much easier for me to achieve first-time sightings of species in Europe than it is in Mexico, at this point of the game. Oystercatchers are unquestionably cool birds, and, even in North America, a rare treat. I, of course, love a good river delta. I couldn’t take much advantage of it on our first, two-week stay.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Terns are too often considered the baby brothers and sisters of gulls, and if you don’t agree, take a look at the number of books written about gulls (at least four in recent years) and then try to remember the last book you read about terns of North America. It’s also a beautiful book to look through.

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North America America Species Groups 193

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Fittingly, this revolutionary style is a product of Europe’s Age of Revolutions, being first introduced by the Austrian brewer Anton Dreher in 1841, at the beginning of what was perhaps the most tumultuous decade of the European nineteenth century.

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Boston Austria Industry Europe 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2019

Anyone in North America might know them as Cosmopolitan Butterfly. Any individuals found in Britain are immigrants or progeny of emigrants from Europe and Africa and thus receive exalted status. The Aristocrat group is not a recognised classification group. For that we turn to the Nymphalidae.

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Ireland South America North America Groups 120

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This month we were able to go to Europe again, for our first real vacation in a few years. One of the groups that doesn’t seem to become any less common in fall is the T**s, known in North America as Chickadees and their relatives. Some of my readers may recall that my wife and I went to Spain a few months ago.

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Switzerland Austria Europe Spain 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera. Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2015

Known as the Great Egret in the Americas, it was commonly referred to as the Great White Heron in the Old World. You see, the Great (White) Heron/Egret is a polytypic species with four subspecies: alba in Europe, egretta in the Americas, melanorhynchos in Africa, and modesta in Asia and Oceania. Just so you know.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Throughout most of North America, European Starling is a four letter word. However, populations in Europe are floundering. Across Europe it is thought 40 million of the birds have disappeared over the past three decades. ” So, do we have a more robust and adaptable population of starlings in North America?

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North America Europe America Livestock 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s an example: born and bred in Europe, I do not know much about the tropics, especially the bird-rich New World tropics. Page 101, chapter Habitats of the Neotropics, lovely photos of a Cougar and a Resplendent Quetzal , and a bit of a smallish map of biomes of Central and South America.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The peregrine still uses cavities in broken-off trunks in Europe, but the hole-nesting population of America apparently disappeared with the felling of the great trees on which they depended.” ” My presentation consisted of several photographs of cavity nesting birds as well as videos, some mine, some from the internet.

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Falcons Pelicans Europe California 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2013

Perhaps because of threats to the ecosystems of the many places the Arctic Tern visits (Europe, Africa, South America, and North America), it may be on the decline. It probably helps that they weigh less than 5 ounces! You can learn more about their incredible journeys here.) .

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Bald Eagle Pandas Puffins Bears 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. Of the 300 hummingbird species across the globe, North America only sees fewer than two dozen of them. Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S. Rufous hummingbird, Photo © Robin L.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

Newts can be found in Asia, Europe, and North America. The most familiar newt in eastern North America, where I live, is the Red Eft , which is the juvenile form of the Red-spotted Newt Notophthalmus viridescens , which is in the above image.

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Salamander Pythons North America Europe 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2017

Perch are a fresh water species of fish that are native to Europe and N. The Great Crested Grebe can be seen across much of the world, but not the Americas, which is a shame because you guys would love this bird. First there was the Glaucous-winged Gull and the starfish , next, the Neotropic Cormorant with a plecostomus catfish.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2012

After all, North America has no native hedgehogs and seeing something so outside of our normal experience was pretty exciting, even if the little guy quickly headed for cover and refused to show itself for Clay Taylor, who came upon the scene a minute too late. New Zealand has a host of hedgehogs but they are introduced.

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Hedgehogs Hungary Opossums North America 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Even the names we give to some birds reflect their dependence on the cultivated landscape – we have Barn Owls ( Tyto alba ) and Barn Swallows ( Hirundo rustica ) over much of the world, and Orchard Orioles ( Icterus spurius ) in the Americas really do have a fondness for fruit groves.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Purple Gallinules live in marshes in the southeastern United States, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. Like many rails they often show up in unexpected places, even rarely being found as vagrants in western Europe!

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United States Florida South America Europe 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. Contradicting this relentless shooting were efforts to establish feral populations in many regions of Europe, both within and outside its natural range.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2019

They give short shrift to New Zealand’s birds, lumping them with odd names no one here uses because the names are shared elsewhere and God knows America isn’t going to take a hit for us. The Blue Tit, the common garden staple of Europe, was now the Eurasian Blue Tit. I’m not blind to the list’s faults, though.

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Iran Barn Owls New Zealand Europe 126

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

North America has far more birds named after people than we do in Europe, where’s there is only around 50, and most of those are scarce or restricted in range.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 213

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

For birders especially in America, this landscape will soon provide doom, destruction, death, and decay. If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. Yes, there is a bird in this picture.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Here where I live – in one of the bird-richest corners of Europe, but I miss the species diversity of my yester years. Map by BirdLife International. I am talking 600 or 700+ bird species.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

They were once a widespread and diverse group, however, with many fossils known from what are now North America and Europe. Mousebirds are social fruit-eaters that dangle precariously at odd angles in tight clumps, feet spread wide and long tails often splayed. The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Kenya Parrots Africa North America 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Its buffy face and chest identified it as an immature bird (thank you, 7th edition of the National Geographic Guide to Birds of North America, soon to be reviewed here). They are found in meadows and other grasslands, habitats which have been attributed as a major reason for their steep decline in Great Britain and Europe.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 148

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America.

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 116

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

These two shorebirds are exceedingly common in western Europe. But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America. So it is always a joy when I can finally put one of those birds on my current digital list. And Oystercatchers are very amusing birds. Little Ringed Plover, Madrid / Kentish Plover, Málaga.

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Austria Spain 2019 Birds 143

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

Anas strepera is a common and widespread duck, breeding across northern Europe and Asia, as well as central North America. They are not in enough habitat types to be considered one of the usual waterfowl though I am used to seeing them.

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United States North America Jamaica Asia 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). During the period from 1994 through 2006, I mostly dedicated myself to itinerant ministry. In other words, I travelled, sometimes every weekend. Most of this travel was in Mexico, but I also visited different regions of the U.S.,

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Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Various bits of Europe celebrate the day in various ways. The Winter Wren was once considered conspecific to the Eurasian Wren , but wren-hunting never became widespread in America. Sleigh rides. Feasting on pasta. Others get a little darker with it. Or does it? Feature Image by Mark Musselman, courtesy of the USFWS.

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Ireland New Zealand Hunting Cooking 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

After all, Hooded Crows are a bird of eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and are not known as long distance migrants. A couple of other birders were around and it didn’t take long for what is potentially the first accepted record of a Hooded Crow in North America to show, much to our delight.

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New York Kazakhstan North America New York City 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

Of course, I will need to mention our local import, now spreading its way across North America, much like the English House Sparrow and the European Starling have , t he Eurasian Collared-dove , Streptopelia decaocto decaocto.

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San Jose North America Mexico America 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) photos by Larry Jordan (click to enlarge) The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser americanus ) or Goosander ( Mergus merganser merganser ) as it’s known in Europe, is a large, cold-hardy, fish-eating duck that nests worldwide near large lakes and rivers in northern forested habitats 1.

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