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Yesterday evening I got home from the second Swarovski Skills Camp at Lake Neusiedl in the east of Austria. But Swarovski Optik is a family-owned business, so the then CEO, Mr. Swarovski, categorically rejected the advice and decided: factory stays in Austria, and the prices will only go up! impressive for Central Europe.
Lake Constance (of the Bodensee in German) is a huge lake on the border of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The place is very popular among tourists of these and many other countries, with extensive tourist infrastructure in place in most towns around the lake.
For the second time in recent history, brown bears have been declared extinct in Austria. Unfortunately there are no bears left in Austria, in the Northern Limestone Alps. said Christian Pichler of WWF Austria The last bear, known as ‘Moritz', an Austrian born bear, has not been seen since 2010.
Before my trip to Austria that bridged January and February, I had never really had that country high on my list of places I wanted to go. What I knew of Austria was very little: The Sound of Music, mountains and skiing, Vienna, Hitler’s birthplace, Krampus, good beer, and often confused with Australia. And am I ever glad I did!
Austria also so honors Hirundo rustica though that honor is watered down a bit by the national animal of Austria, which is the Golden Eagle. Before Estonia switched over to the Euro the back of the 500-kroon note was graced by the national bird. Estonia is not the only country to have the Barn Swallow as the national bird.
In September, I spent a week in eastern Austria (Burgenland) birding and taking birding product photos and I got to see huge flocks of starlings enjoying the grapes (as we enjoyed the products thereof that evening). and incredibly impressive. It looked something like this: www.youtube.com/watch?
Snow Goose, Salzburg, Austria. But it is a decidedly odd bird to see in Austria, and is not the sort of species that is likely to be introduced or an escapee. Seeing White Storks in Spain this year was pretty cool, too. This is obviously not an uncommon bird.
The Italian Sparrow is not entirely confined to Italy but – not surprisingly – also occurs in neighbouring areas of Austria and Switzerland. There are currently no German records of the species, in spite of it occurring in Austria less than 35 km south of the German border.
A little over a month ago I was hiking up a mountain path outside of Innsbruck, Austria, with birders from around the world. This revelation brings us back to when Dale was done with his presentation on that mountainside in Austria. When we reached our destination we were greeted with glasses of champagne. And play with them we did!
This last weekend I was in eastern Austria in the state of Burgenland – just a mile from the Hungarian border – where a small population of Great Bustards persists. But what is even more spectacular than the sheer size of this bird, is its absolutely crazy lekking display.
Dreher’s great stroke of brilliance was to marry new industrial British malting methods with the traditional cold fermentation and long maturation – known as lagering – of his homeland, producing a clean-tasting, amber beer that was lighter than anything else being brewed in Austria and Bavaria at the time.
Visiting the continent after the end of most of the autumn migration meant that the number of bird species I could see in northern France, Switzerland, southern Germany, and Austria was much reduced. Not only was the setting less exotic-friendly than an urban park, this was only the third registry for this species in Austria on eBird.
There’s a folk tale (However, there are other theories as well) — mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary only to deny its truth — that says the origin was Isabella, Archduchess of Austria, daughter of Philip II of Spain.
We had met before, so when he encountered me in Austria he asked me what I was doing there. In 1999 came a watershed moment when I flew to Austria for the launch of the brand-new Swarovski EL range. I’m here to show you birds, Lars” I told him.
An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Tags: austria animal research pigs. Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover. From USA Today.
And then at the 2017 launch in Austria there were to be heard Ooooh’s! A couple of months before its actual release, Swarovski announced something big coming our way. There were rumours of cameras, some devices for bird ID, etc. Nobody was prepared for what that something was. and Aaaah’s!
But our most common October company, as we travelled from Paris to Switzerland, Bavaria, and Austria, was the Carrion Crow. The same location gave me my very first sighting of the Spotted , or Eurasian , Nutcracker. How nice of it to be carrying a nut!
Corey had five life birds this on Saturday in Austria and Lichtenstein but easily the best was a very cooperative Wallcreeper which was working the walls of an Austrian castle. The setting, the species, and the sheer awesomeness of the sighting made it an exceptionally easy decision.
That I have trips to Puerto Rico, Austria, and the Bahamas planned in the first two months of the year makes me a bit more confident than usual that I can make it again this year. Going to Austria gives me another shot. So having reached 500 or more species in six of the last ten years makes me confident I can do it again.
Corey, on the other hand, is chasing fancy birds in Austria with the global birderati. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere and still want certain winter birds, this weekend is as good a time as any to go get them! The only birds I’m really focusing on this weekend are Falcons. Happy Super Bowl Sunday! How about you?
And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. Here’s the idea.
If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. We will attack your private life wherever possible. Have you got any more hobbies Daniel? We will destroy them.
The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006. , and species breeding in cavities are less affected. The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years. It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009).
More >> Players. New York Times. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. New York City. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog). Click on Project Treadstone above and see what happens!
In fact, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , “The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world – it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.” ” The bird is massive.
And, honestly, I feel a little guilty saying that traveling to Puerto Rico, Austria, and the Bahamas so far in 2017 is what has kept me from seeing not only a Great Gray Owl but New York’s first Clark’s Grebe and the young Ross’s Gull that was visiting Tupper Lake.
Yet, here I am, back from Austria, minus one Black Woodpecker sighting. And if I dip again? Well, that doesn’t even bear thinking about. I better not miss this bird again. It’s not that I didn’t try. It’s not that I didn’t have help. It’s not that I wasn’t in the right spot.
Austria, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and a brief visit to California have kept me in new birds and it has been wonderful. This year has been a good year for me in terms of travel. But there is still little more in birding that I like than birding my local haunts and seeing what there is to see.
After meeting the woman of his dreams, he moved to Austria where he now has the coolest job in the world making awesome toys for birders ( Swarovski Optik product manager ). Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks.
Small semi-captive populations also exist in Spain and Austria and a reintroduction program from the Birecik population has been started in Syria. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa.
I know for a fact that a certain birder from the US only joined an esteemed bird blog and blogged like a madman just so he would eventually be invited by makers of fine optics to Austria where he would have a chance at seeing his lifer white-throated dippers. Crazy, I know. And you know what?
Hence the psychological continuum described (below) by Austria's Association Against Animal Factories from about a year ago. The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior.
Early in 1482, Mary of Burgundy, sovereign regnant of the Duchy of Burgundy and consort of Archduke Maximilian I of Austria, embarked on a falconry hunt with her husband and several knights.
Several countries, including Austria, Bolivia, Colombia, Greece, Peru, Britain and Paraguay, have already imposed or approved bans. Why is the United States lagging so far behind?
25 well-known scientists, philosophers and politicians from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States informed in a comprehensible manner and on a high level about the current status on animal ethics studies, answered open questions and introduced their approaches.
So, I have now been living in the Alps for about 4 years. And I cannot claim that it was easy at first. I grew up in South Africa where my garden list was over 200. I then lived in Central America where there were more bird species than my bird books (and my competence) could hope to identify.
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.
You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.
Yet, it takes great logistical effort to organize the census all the way from Germany to Austria, Hungary and Serbia in the same day, to count on numerous volunteers and hope for the best February weather. The idea behind is simple, some birds may move and if counted within a week or a month, double counting is almost guaranteed.
Each release is blended and bottled by specialty spirits importer Haus Alpenz of Austria from a selection of three- to five-year-old Trinidadian small-cask rum aged on American white oak, bottled at a stronger-than-usual 98 proof (49% alcohol by volume). and has only been available on a limited basis as supplies allow.
Yesterday was a public holiday in Austria and we had decided to take a drive out to Lake Constance / Bodensee to see what we could turn up – given that migration season has just started to kick in and we had had a dramatic turn of weather (fresh snows), we had high hopes for something spectacular turning up.
Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). The country list (which also includes Principalities, Territories, Special Administrative Regions, Autonomuos States, Kingdoms, Caliphates, etc.) has reached 54.
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