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. So, your next step is to search for the right habitat.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2014
And – let’s face it – chances are you live in North America. Yes, the Tufted Duck is the ideal suject for this blog: it is reasonably common here in Germany and not hard to photograph, yet to you it is probably the subject of countless day dreams scanning through endless flocks of Lesser Scaup.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
There is a Chinese proverb stating “Laws control a lesser person, right conduct controls a greater one.” T he European Green Woodpecker (Visselhoevede, Germany) is closely related to the Grey-headed Woodpecker, but less demanding in terms of its habitat ( source ). Kind of like a diesel version.
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. So to speak.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Left – 2nd edition, right – 3rd edition So, not much has changed since the 2nd edition? Forget occasional escapees, there is an established feral population successfully breeding in the north of Germany, which was 131 birds strong last year. Yet, still a gauntlet thrown to other publishers, too.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2020
Mandarin Ducks, Munich, Germany. Sure, it is an introduced species in Germany. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America.
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. Which sounds fine.
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