10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals. In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically. in the evening.

Fur 194

Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 194

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia).

Serbia 246

Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2016

I may try to use it in the field the next time, but am still suspicious of it: I find it faster to write down a name code (in my case, the first three letters of a genus and the first three letters of a species name) plus a figure, than to press the touch screen. and entering observations into the eBird application on my smartphone.

Romania 137

Romania Sparrows Battery Turtles 137

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! The national park ranges some 100 km in length along the right bank of the Danube (the left bank is in Romania), where the river varies in width from 5 km / 3 mi to only 150 m / 500 ft and the mountains rise up to 800 m / 2600 ft a.s.l.

Serbia 194

Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 194