10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2015
But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel. And the squirrel I will post about is indeed what it seems : a cute, little, ferocious, nest-predatory, butt-kicking, cuddly and adorable native critter of Europe, the Eurasian Red Squirrel. And aren’t you glad it is.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2015
I have observed it previously in India, but never in Europe… but will have to settle with a voice and no sight. Eurasian Griffon Vultures are flying towards the restaurant (occasionally visited by Brown Bear , too). Still, it’s a new bird for my country list. At some rock faces we see juveniles on their nesting ledges.
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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. Rehabbers have to grin and bear it during baby season; we raise incredibly cute wild birds behind masks, give them no human attention, and make sure they bond with each other and not us.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. Thomas acknowledges that the Anthropocene epoch, the age of humans, is bringing a sixth great extinction, but that, by itself, is not something he much mourns. Prum, Doubleday). Anticosti, in the Gulf of St.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue. One would think that for a species as common in Europe as the Grey-headed Woodpecker , the HBW would spend some effort to update the species entry. The White-cheeked Partridge is classified as Near Threatened.
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. There’s more.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2020
Even through they subsist on insects during much of the year, European Robins are year-round residents of Britain, and during the colder, gray months of year, their colorful bearing and often audacious presence around humans was not lost on early observers. Robins aren’t really quite red though.
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