10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2013

Admittedly, This next I and the Bird doesn’t offer a ton for our friends in Europe and Asia and I apologize for that, but it’s hard to ignore those wonderful little Troglodytes. Wait, that sounds odd. In any case, the next I and the Bird is going to be all about Wrens.

Asia 158

Asia Europe Birds 158

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Black-bellied Plover: Known as Grey Plover in Europe and Asia. , most of the area was actually quite empty, with only a few places overrun by people rather than frequented by birds. As this is a coastal place, there are of course lots of waders, in larger numbers, and more variety than in Shanghai. Far Eastern Curlew: Endangered.

China 263

China Birds Fish Asia 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

This gull is closely related to, and necessary to separate from, the Black-headed Gull , a bird familiar to any birder from Europe (or even just anyone from Europe!). The Brown-headed Gull is a bird of Asia, breeding from Turkmenistan to Mongolia, and winters along the coasts of Asia. Notice the white iris.

Turkmenistan 153

Turkmenistan Mongolia Asia Europe 153

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

JANUARY 20, 2016

The Azure-winged Magpie is a pretty member of the crow family found in Eastern Asia, from Siberia and Japan down to Hong Kong. As well as the population found in East Asia, another smaller population also occurred in the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal. Oh that birds like it were more widely distributed in Europe today!

Spain 102

Spain Portugal Asia Japan 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2013

Purple Herons Ardea purpurea are an old world element of the Ardeidae and range widely throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and parts of Europe and central Asia. Within Europe, they are mostly found in the South (around the Mediterranean), and the East.

Germany 153

Germany Asia Europe Africa 153

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2015

It is now treated as its own species, confined to Africa and the tip of Arabia (Black Kites also migrate here from Europe and Asia). I saw these individuals in Imfolozi Game Reserve, where they were hanging around a kill.

South Africa 160

South Africa Africa Botswana Wolves 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Even where Common Starlings are not introduced, their homeland of Europe, they are hardly loved. One must travel to Africa and Asia to marvel at their diversity, and it is in Africa that you may come across one attractive species, the Red-winged Starling. This is grossly unfair. And they have done well for themselves.

Ostriches 146

Ostriches South Africa Africa Reptiles 146

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2022

It takes the place of prinias in Asia, maybe some “warblers” in Europe and Africa. Overgrown fields are also good places to see two similar sounding yet very different birds; Gray-crowned Yellowthroat and Blue Grosbeak. The yellowthroat is larger than the Common.

Costa Rica 257

Costa Rica Farming Sparrows Birds 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Great Reed Warblers breed across huge chunks of Europe and Asia and winter across large swaths of southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. If that makes any sense at all.)

Hungary 159

Hungary Asia Europe Africa 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

Newts can be found in Asia, Europe, and North America. The Smooth Newt Lissotriton vulgaris is the most common newt across most of Europe, and is also, as a matter of fact, called the Common Newt , and is most likely the type of newt that a witch would turn a peasant into in England.

Salamander 161

Salamander Pythons North America Europe 161

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.

Africa 162

Africa Hunters Goats Wolves 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Like the Adjutants in Asia and Jabiru of the Americas, the Marabou is our bare-headed scavenging stork. Only slightly shorter, but more elegantly built than the Marabou, the Saddle-billed also has a sister species in Asia, the Black-necked Stork. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.

Africa 233

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 233

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JULY 15, 2017

Perch are a fresh water species of fish that are native to Europe and N. Asia, but have been introduced elsewhere. First there was the Glaucous-winged Gull and the starfish , next, the Neotropic Cormorant with a plecostomus catfish. Now, the Great Crested Grebe and the perch.

Fish 100

Fish Asia America Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2012

Eurasian Wrynecks are found breeding across the temperate zones of Europe and Asia. They migrate to warmer climes in Africa and south Asia to winter. Until a month ago I had never seen the Eurasian Wryneck either, but the trip to Hungary took care of that gap on the life list easily.

Hungary 172

Hungary Asia Woodpeckers Africa 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2012

There are seventeen species of hedgehog found across Europe, Asia, and Africa, the only places where hedgehogs are native. europaeus , found throughout most of western Europe and parts of northern Europe as well, though the hybrids that are often sold in American pet stores might be even more familiar.

Hedgehogs 168

Hedgehogs Hungary Opossums North America 168

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.

United States 162

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). It originally served as the port of entry for goods brought from Asia by Spanish galleons. 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.,

Birds 158

Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

White-breasted Nuthatch, photo by Mike Bergin That yanking, beeping clan with the notable head-first style is a far more diverse group that we in North American and Europe appreciate. All that and more is available at the re-inaugural I and the Bird.

Asia 102

Asia Turkey Europe Birds 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

I was given my first real field guide to the birds of Europe by my parents, a guide beyond the species found at backyard feeders and city ponds. … Birds chickadees chickadees and tits Europe tits Azure T**s. My first ever Azure T**s. Yes, times had definitely changed. For better. Much better.

Europe 100

Europe Birds Kazakhstan Russia 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China.

Germany 151

Germany Asia China Russia 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

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. If you really want to know what’s creeping up the trunk in Europe, you’ll need to analyse the exact wing pattern, as shown on the picture below.

North America 145

North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Latin name “ chinensis ” is somewhat misleading as is much more common in Southeast Asia than in China – apparently, it was chosen in the mistaken belief that the type specimen had come from China. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

The Common Gallinule , is the most wide spread of all the members of the rail family, being found from Canada, to Chile, Europe, Asia, Africa, much of the Pacific, and the Galapagos Islands. Very much omnivorous, they consume plant life, spiders, works, frogs, well, pretty much anything that you might find in a reedy, swampy area.

Chile 100

Chile Breeders Asia Mexico 100

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.

Sri Lanka 256

Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 256

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Sure, this is normal occurrence across much of Europe and southwest Asia but this particular tale comes from out on the east end of New York’s Long Island, in the town of Medford, where this happened to an unsuspecting non-birder, Celeste Rovner.

New York 164

New York Hungary Zoos Asia 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

The distribution of this species is limited to South-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the area around the Black and the Caspian Sea in western Asia. Cover photo (c) by Maciej Szymanski.

Serbia 176

Serbia Protection Europe 2015 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

For both forms, their little patches within the WP are but outlying exclaves of a much wider range elsewhere in Africa and Asia, respectively. ” Birds Europe Purple Swamphen rails Spain' If it still shows signs of life or even struggles to free itself, the plant matter is quickly dispatched with another bite of the massive bill.

Spain 157

Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. Xena is a Eurasian Eagle Owl. She lives with her handler, wildlife rehabilitator Lisa Acton, in upstate New York.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 163

Wildlife Rehabilitation Raised Eagles Owls 163

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.

Cattle 170

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

Published by Princeton University Press in early 2016, Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia (I’m going to use this shortened title for the rest of the review), covers 83 species of Anseriformes–ducks, geese, and swans–of, yes, Europe, Asia and North America. By Sébastien Reeber. 72 color plates.

North America 142

North America Asia Europe America 142

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MAY 19, 2012

Leading scientists, conservationists and aviculturalists from Europe and South-east Asia met at Walsrode in Germany recently to formulate a rescue plan. Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action.

Vietnam 153

Vietnam 2000 Germany Groups 153

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AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.

Germany 173

Germany Russia Iceland India 173

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. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.*

New York 210

New York Kazakhstan North America New York City 210

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

From the pictures in the guides I have from Europe and Asia, it looks pretty cute. . - Delete these 6 letters, leaving 4 letters remaining. - Rearrange these 4 remaining letters and you will end up with a rare avian visitor to North America. What is the name of this beverage? Extra Credit: Here is a story.

2011 140

2011 North America Asia Europe 140

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear. But easy ain’t all.

Kazakhstan 156

Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2017

Common Choughs are typically a species of Europe and Asia, and one I failed for years to see in Wales. These Chestnut-naped Francolin look like they have lipstick and heavy eyeliner! The Sanetti Plateau is also a good place to see other species you mightn’t expect to find here. But a small relic population lives here.

Ethiopia 100

Ethiopia Mammals South America Rats 100