10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2019

I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. They give short shrift to New Zealand’s birds, lumping them with odd names no one here uses because the names are shared elsewhere and God knows America isn’t going to take a hit for us. But the Blue Tit was different.

Iran 134

Iran Barn Owls New Zealand Europe 134

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. According to the rather odd and quaint rules for collective terms for birds, groups of Striolated Buntings are called a whole bunch.)

United Arab Emirates 161

United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

The Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator can be found all around the Mediterranean, including many parts of North Africa, and its range extends East into Iran. It also used to be a rather common bird in the South of Germany, but the German population has crashed and collapsed (almost?) This was also the case for the Woodchat Shrike.

Cattle 120

Cattle Germany Iran Breeders 120