10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Here in the Brecks – an area of poor, sandy soils on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk – we have a small but important breeding population. They favour the old heaths, but a number of pairs also breed on farmland. Brettenham Heath National Nature Reserve holds the highest density of nesting Curlews in the Brecks.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2024
If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. On their breeding grounds in Spain, Lesser Kestrels are very much city birds, for 95% of the population nests in towns.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. ” Hm.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
I found this out last year, on a trip to France with my daughter Sarah. I did notice that many French dragonflies depicted on the Internet (at least those from northern and central France) are also found in Great Britain. Sections on Behaviour, Breeding Habitat, and Population and Conservation offer brief but specific information.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2012
And as much as I’ve deplored the tendency to anthropomorphise the family lives of birds , this is one instance where I have to believe it’s worked solidly to avian advantage: seeing the birds tending their nests day in and day out tends to build up warm feelings. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. And, it is a guide based on scholarship as well as field work (author Reeber has monitored the birds of the Lac of Grand-Lieu, France, for the National Society for Nature Protection (SNPN) since 1994). So much simpler than pinning down those warblers!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2013
I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. or birds that look very different in their breeding and non-breeding plumages (Shorebirds! I studied it. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.
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