10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2019
Following the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in Portugal and Spain after Islamic conquest in the 8 th century, falconry would only became a more firmly fixed Iberian tradition in the hands of the Umayyad rulers of Al-Andalus. A falconry scene from the Severa Bible, a Sephardic bible from early 14th-century Spain.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2013
In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and India, where he chased that country’s rarest owl. A pair of these eagles breed nearby, but this bird shows no wish to reappear and show itself better.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2019
On the opposite bank, European pond terrapins are basking in the sun and, behind them, a herd of horses is grazing, preventing the scrub from taking over the grasslands. A pair of these eagles breed nearby, but this bird shows no wish to reappear and show itself better. Steve answers: Bonelli’s Eagle !
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2016
Alba wagtails range widely and commonly from Greenland and Spain towards the east, far and wide, to the mighty river Yenisei in Siberia. you know … birds can vary, and who knows how exactly those transitional plumages between winter and breeding may look like. This – roughly – is where ocularis takes over.
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