10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Photo Una.World/rs The next patch to visit was the Reva Pond, farther down the Danube, to find the Black Woodpecker , 3 WT Eagles and a Eurasian Otter walking on ice, from one hole to another, diving for a short while and continuing farther. And at the beginning of February, my list is still ridiculously low at 55 species.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
With more than 312 so far recorded bird species, Lake Kerkini National Park offers great birding year-round. In spring, a huge heronry of 10 species (including Spoonbill , Glossy Ibis , Squacco , Purple , and Night Heron , Pygmy Cormorant , etc.) and up to 9000 pairs forms in the north of the lake.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
And here in Europe, they are the real deal, an indigenous species and not domesticated animals gone wild. Whenever I come here, I am focused on birds, but I have had some good mammal sighting as well: a roe deer swimming across a pond (only its head and antlers visible), a pair of otters playing in the water, a curious (young?)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2015
One Common Raven is disappearing towards its nest among the branches of the poplar plantation, only to reappear a few minutes later to give a good chase – aerial acrobatics included – to its first neighbour, the White-tailed Eagle which breeds in the vicinity. Because they aren’t fishes, but – Eurasian Otters! kilometres / 0.7
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2017
That is hardly a surprise: this area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles, which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country! Then, there were Eurasian Otters , which I’ve seen twice. And how about Black Storks, otters and eagles? And, with it, its otters, eagles and storks.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Last year, in November, I notched up a dozen species of butterflies, an impressive total anywhere in Europe so late in the year. A feature of the autumn is the abundance of Great White Egrets – up to 200 on the lake – but as far as I know they have yet to breed here. Despite appearances, they are remarkably docile.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A Wood Stork lands in a tree, while one Neotropical River Otter swims across and climbs a floating log. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. Coming to Costa Rica, I needed only a few dozen species to cross my first big threshold: a thousand species.
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