10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 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 beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Some of the many species collecting seeds at the feeders included t**s and Eurasian Nuthatch.

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Russia Iceland Birds Europe 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

A collection of mosaics known as the Mosaico de Cavaleiro in the southeastern town of Mértola dates from the middle of this Visigothic period and contains what is said to be the oldest depiction of falconry in Iberia. A falconer and his bird from the Mosaico de Cavaleiro in Mértola, possibly the oldest depiction of falconry in Iberia.

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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 125

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. Following this early example, weathervanes in classical antiquity often assumed the form of animals and mythological beings – often deifications of the four compass winds – traditions that carried on in Europe long past the fall of Rome.

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 152

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

In the last several hundred years, this service has been performed by hops, but before their widespread adoption in medieval Europe, brewers relied on a compendium of botanical agents to bitter their beers – some of which contained psychoactive or mildly toxic substances. I’m glad that Collective Arts Brewing agrees. So drink up.

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Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

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. Merriam-Webster, [link].

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. 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.

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Falcons Japan China South Africa 233

Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. Illinoisans breathed a collective sigh of relief. One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S., but that leaves open the possibility of slaughtering horses for human consumption abroad. On May 24, Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the bill into law.

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Horse Slaughter Slaughter Slaughtered Horses 40

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. The internet is great at collecting information, but it is at best so-so at working out what’s actually important. (It’s Conservation Lion vultures'

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150