Gazumped to Norway
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
Being part of the magnificence that is 10,000 Birds and getting to virtually hang out with some of the other bloggers can be entertaining and fun but occasionally there are downsides.
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The Garrulous Jay
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2023
By David Tomlinson David Tomlinson has been interested in birds for as long as he can remember, and has been writing about them for almost as long. A former tour leader, he has seen an awful lot of birds around the world, and wishes he could remember more of them. It’s a different matter in the spring.
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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
The next morning, through Yellowhammers and Eurasian Skylarks singing all around me, I went birding. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird. Never mind, it’s not a bird. 80% of the national park is covered by forest, 85% of it consisting of Norway Spruce , Silver Fir and the European Beech.
How I dipped the Horned Grebe
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2015
In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively). As a consequence, this species is only a rare vagrant in Serbia.
Birding’s Biggest Dips
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
For those that might not fully comprehend, the birding slang-term to “dip” or to “dip out on” a bird is to go looking for a particular species and not find it. That bird can then be referred to as a”dip”, the noun version of the word. That most dreaded of disappointments. No problem.
The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.
We are Just Money Grubbers
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. Some of them were always uncommon in the region, others are highly localised, some are hard to notice among thousands of similar birds, but others were abundant recently and one of them still is, despite the decrease in numbers.
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