10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 192

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. This is where they got their name. According to R.D.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

He blogs at The Nightjar – The tales of an Upstate New York Birder and otherwise stays busy being an eBird reviewer, taking care of his kids, and, recently, planning a trip to Europe where he hopes to see lots of new birds. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion. ibis and the eastern B.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One of the surest signs of approaching winter in Britain is the influx of Eurasian Woodcock ( Scolopax rusticola ) arriving from summering grounds in Scandinavia, Siberia, and the Russian Far East, encompassing an enormous, forested swath of the Northern Hemisphere that supports the greater part of the world’s breeding population.

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Owls Ireland United States Birds 224

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2022

In a big city such as Shanghai, it is not always easy to see animals. This sometimes makes it difficult for wild animals to survive. The Olive-backed Pipit is a small songbird that in Shanghai can only be seen in winter – in summer, it breeds further north. Some Birds of Shanghai. But when it gets too cold there, it comes here.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra. There are many big birds, many pretty birds.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Trips Europe Finland' Of course, birding was on the itinerary! All photos © Joseph Chiera.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

They are feathered jewels with extraordinary breeding dances almost unrivalled in the bird world. There are few families of birds as bewitching as the birds-of-paradise.

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Indonesia Birds Australia Guinea 194

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. I’ve once seen Grey Partridges there, and the meadows have breeding Montague’s Harriers.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

Did some kind of animal eat the tulips and spread them in its droppings? Wikipedia cites three competing theories : It is unclear who first brought the Tulip to northwest Europe. After introduction of the Tulip to Europe, it gained much popularity and was seen as a sign of abundance and indulgence in the Ottoman Empire.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

Islamic rule in Portugal established a tradition of religious tolerance uncommon in the rest of Europe, and falconry continued to appear in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish art produced throughout Iberia in the Middle Ages. The estate is also a stud farm for puro sangue Lusitano horses, considered one of the world’s oldest breeds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. But none came. Flor de Pascua – The Weathercock (1921) by Dutch graphic artist M.C.

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

Yet, in the late 1970s there still were six colonies with about 40 breeding pairs left, but in the early 1990s only two colonies and 22 pairs persisted (of which only 13 bred in 1991) – five of them in this gorge. There are very few sheep in the meadows and too few animals end up dead in the open, where scavengers can get them.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. Monk Parakeet is the only parrot species that builds its own nest.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. Henry, as Kivell affectionately admits, may not be “the sharpest knife in the drawer,&# but compared to other animals, he’s a true scholar. and Europe.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

They may eat other insects if they have to, but all they really want are ants and Gorman lists 24 species of ant that are part of their diet in Europe, any life stage will do. They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

Around this time of the year, the first few waders are back in Shanghai from their breeding grounds far further up north. Generally, being back here early is not a very good sign – it may indicate a failed breeding attempt, as suggested for Asian Dowitchers in a paper on their presence in Lianyungang somewhat further north of Shanghai.

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Humane 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

The falcon breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China but winters in Southern and East Africa. The Northern Goshawk gets the HBW into a slightly lyrical mode: “Whether carried afield on the fists of Japanese shoguns or by medieval falconers of Europe, Goshawks have seen much human history. Still as impressed as before?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

These beaters usually take the form of grazing herds of game and domestic animals, and large flocks of carmine bee-eaters may gather overhead. Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g.

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Africa Gabon South Africa Uganda 265

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. Princeton University Press, 2020 (published in Europe by Helm).

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2016

July is that boring period after the breeding and prior to migration season. So many beaches of Central Europe ended up here, mostly in the Deliblato Sands (Delibatska pescara) reserve in the southeast of the Vojvodina province – the largest sandy terrain of Europe. But first, where did all that sand came from?

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Sheep Turtles Squirrels Europe 126

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

It hasn’t achieved as much attention yet, presumably because people are rather preoccupied with wars brewing in Eastern Europe and missing airliners, but give it time. It’s all very well saying every animal life matters, or every conservation issue matters. Losing Europe’s vultures would matter a great deal.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. Fuller is also a photographer, but his web page notes that he seldom takes photographs of birds or animals.).

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

These falcons mostly feed on insects, but in the breeding season they catch migrating passerines – they even time their breeding to coincide with Autumn migration of passerines in late summer! An Eleonora’s Falcon , light morph, makes several circles above the Olive grove and it is gone.

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Greece Falcons Madagascar Africa 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. A relative of this species is the Yellow-bellied Tit.

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