Breeding Europe Humane Protection 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2016
But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. For humans, you have the drama of sister wives. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Maybe monogamy, with just one partner to support and protect, isn’t so bad after all.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2012
Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra. There are many big birds, many pretty birds.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2022
But there was one more thing I evaluated, the human infrastructure, the potential guides among the national park employees. This was the first geological site protected in the Djerdap area, formed along a fault by incision of the Boljetinska River into the sedimentary rocks. Djerdap (a.k.a.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal. They also prey on frogs and crabs.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2022
For some reason that I do not quite understand myself – given that I really rather dislike children and am not too positive about the rest of humanity either – I recently put up a little display of bird photos inside my Shanghai compound, which I share (as the only foreigner) with about 1700 Chinese.
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