10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

But your reason to check the canyon is a White-throated Dipper that breeds there and with some luck, you may even encounter a Rock Bunting. Easy species here are Corn Bunting , Hawfinch , Spotted Flycatcher , Red-backed Shrike , Woodlark , Eurasian Golden Oriole , European Turtle Dove. Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit.

Serbia 245

Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Romania 245

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Birds of the Iron Gates: While the best birding season here is the breeding period (May to June), the Iron Gates is also an important migratory stopover and wintering area. The highest section of the Forgotten Road lies at 500 m / 1600 ft a.s.l, The Woodchat Shrike, Boljetin, June 2014.

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2018

It is a fascinating world of swampy forests of willow and poplar, inhabited by Black Storks , White-tailed Eagles , Eastern Olivaceous and Icterine Warblers (above), among more than 200 other species. Backwaters are a hard place to explore.

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Beavers Serbia Eagles Hungary 121

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Marshes are the habitats with the greatest species richness in moderate zones, also significant as breeding, wintering and migratory stopover sites for birds; it therefore comes as no surprise that this one is among the 10,000 Important Bird Areas of the World (one per each bird species?). Short-toed Snake-eagle. Circaetus gallicus.

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 192

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. Hooded Vultures , photo by Adam Riley.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There is not just one comparative layout of gulls flying; there are plates of small and medium-sized gulls in non-breeding plumage, dark-winged larger gulls, 1st-winter larger gulls, 2nd-year larger gulls, 3rd-year larger gulls, and white-winged gulls. The chapters, however, offer very good introductions to each bird group.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Sometimes it is too late, as they are deceased and Brahminy Kites and White-bellied Sea-Eagles usually take advantage of the situation. She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. She is actively involved in fieldwork and maintaining the database.

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

For most species, the breeding season ends by the end of June and the majority of songbirds are silent and invisible now. This section also offered a European Turtle Dove. From there, follow the street south to the main junction of the village (by the church) and turn left/east across the Tamis River to the next village of Baranda.

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Farming Birds Fish Boars 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway.

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Serbia Montenegro Greece Bulgaria 202

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The reservoir is surrounded by traditional farming landscape, adding the European Turtle Dove and the Ortolan Bunting to the scene. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule. eBird bar chart. #4

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Serbia Birds Farming Bulgaria 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2018

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay. A pair of European Turtle Doves on a wire, followed by two soaring Common Buzzards ….

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Serbia Eagles Falcons Farming 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2016

July is that boring period after the breeding and prior to migration season. Turtle-Doves and Red-backed Shrikes were showing particularly well, in the air were both Barn Swallows and, more numerous, Sand Martins (Bank Swallows), junipers were decorated by numerous Bee-eaters, plus European Stonechat and a Corn Bunting.

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Sheep Turtles Squirrels Europe 124

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Unfortunately, the Ashy Drongos did not exactly do what he predicted that they would do – mob potential predators more frequently during the breeding season and mob the more dangerous predator (in this case, the Black Eagle) more intensely. If you do not like that explanation, the HBW has another one: “khloros green (cf.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

Hundreds massing at Mai Po, many coming into breeding plumage. 23 Crested Serpent-Eagle. 24 Greater Spotted Eagle. David observed that they only flush for eagles, so we stopped and scanned. A couple of minutes later, this one Spotted Eagle soared by. 62 Oriental Turtle-Dove. 9 Little Grebe. 12 Gray Heron.

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

The birding at Eilat is so dynamic in so many ways, you can’t just use that easy “gen” to zip over and see a Bar-tailed Lark , that Greater Spotted Eagle that flew overhead, or even the Wryneck hanging out in Eilat’s very own Central Park. Lesser Spotted Eagle was also seen several times along with Steppe Eagle.

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Costa Rica Eagles Birds 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Of the dozen gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” seven are birds: the seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and – of course – a partridge in a pear tree. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird (e.g., Donna). ==.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 244