10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
While tracking brown bears in Greece some time ago, B. stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc. His host’s house was smoke-blackened, everything but his shiny hunting rifles. Still, this was a hunting chase and not the proper ecotourism, but B.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
An afternoon is already growing old while I am driving downhill to the Livadi marsh at the island of Kefallonia, Greece. Two-thirds of the world’s population breeds colonially on Greek islands. Trips falcons Greece' Some time later, one Western Marsh Harrier flushes up about forty Eurasian Teal.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
And here I am now, avoiding the two barking dogs trying to bite my tires while I am driving through pre-dawn darkness towards the delta of the river Styx, or Acheron, as it is known today at the Ionian Sea coast of Greece. A guy on a motorbike is approaching me… perhaps a leader of the hunt to warn me off the area for safety reasons?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2023
I also travelled to Kerkini in Northern Greece in June and Kefalonia in south-east Greece in October, so my overall year list was a more satisfactory 272 species. These birds (usually juveniles) are clearly linked to the growing breeding population in the region. My overseas trips did boost the overall year list considerably.
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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