10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2015
I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. According to R.D.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2014
It breeds in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard and overwinters (singly and at mountain top hot springs – if Hollywood is to be trusted) along the coasts of northern Europe. Although a quite common bird of Norfolk, for me it was an attractive lure and a possibility of a lifer. One of them was partially leucistic.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2014
It hasn’t achieved as much attention yet, presumably because people are rather preoccupied with wars brewing in Eastern Europe and missing airliners, but give it time. Losing Europe’s vultures would matter a great deal. Losing a few non-breeding lions in zoos a great deal less. Conservation Lion vultures'
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