10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

The Willow Ptarmigan, which is the most numerous, can also be found in Russia, Finland, Scandinavia, and Canada. Unlike other grouse species, the male Willow Ptarmigan remains with the female throughout the breeding season to help raise the chicks. The Willow Ptarmigan was officially designated in 1960, when Alaska entered the union.

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Alaska Finland Indiana Russia 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2015

This is my first visit to this area, known as the Madz Brod, where two new breeding species for the country were discovered a decade ago. They are common winter visitors, but this is my first observation of them in the breeding season. Madz Brod by Slobodan Puzovic. We wait again. Temperature drops to 11oC.

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Europe Serbia Russia Breeding 248

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds?

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India Sudan Ukraine Camels 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 175

Critter News

AUGUST 22, 2010

Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia. In 2000, around 1,000 breeding pairs were known, but by 2009, the number had plummeted to just 120-220 pairs, a decline of 88%.

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Species Myanmar Endangered Species Russia 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China.

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Germany Asia China Russia 151

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

While this merganser does maintain a strong presence in China throughout the year, it may breed as far north as Russia and winter as far south as Thailand. It is also a species in rapid decline, considered vulnerable by some authorities and endangered by others.

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North America Thailand Russia Ducks 230

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We’ll see ambitious programs to save diverse species from the outback of Australia, the savannahs of East Africa, the Brazilian Amazon and some of the most successful zoo breeding programs in the world. Found in the frozen forests near Russia’s border with Korea, the cats are feared to have just 30 members left in the wild.

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Pandas Leopards Gorillas Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Note the long legs and red bill of the breeding-ready Black-headed Gull below. In India and the Far East, they are winter visitors from China and Russia. They breed noisily and colonially at large lakes with reed beds and marshy areas. Bonaparte’s Gull, shows a smaller, dark bill and shorter legs.

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Philadelphia Russia Europe North America 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Though these plovers are common on the North Norfolk coast, their nearest breeding grounds are far to the north. A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. These were dark-bellied birds from Russia. There were several Wigeon to be seen, too, but all were snoozing with heads under wings.

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Geese Russia Breeding Unwanted 184

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Next came a stop in Russia. Finland is a great place to see a variety of different species, many of which flock to the north to take advantage of the extended daylight during the breeding season. Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe.

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Finland Estonia Birds Europe 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2011

That’s about 400 hundred people in Canada, 2600 in Greenland, 2500 in Svalbrad (Norway), and 700 or so in Russia. It is often quiet and still, but filled with the hustle and bustle of birds trying to cram a breeding season into an abbreviated summer. Those lucky few can lay claim to even more rays than us here.

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Norway Russia Canada Shelters 148

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear.

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Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. This current winter is no exception, and at the time of writing there are no fewer than five to be seen at four different locations.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. Research has also shown that migrant birds have smaller brains than resident birds but grow more neurons, which deal with spatial information, before they migrate.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 251

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

For example, Danny Bystrak (Breeding Bird Survey) and Dave Ziolkowski (Bird Banding Lab) of the USGS indicated that changes would not have a substantial negative impact on their programs, and would be just a “minor annoyance.” But I could already identify his eponymous jay.

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Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It Most of the area is forested mountains, cut into sections by rivers and large brooks. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 135

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2017

Instead, they make a wide circuit of many different breeding sites, apparently geared more towards brief hookups with whichever females are in the area. Some male Pectoral Sandpipers in the study logged upwards of 13,000 kilometers in a month, visiting up to 24 different breeding sites. (In

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Russia Rights Stray Alaska 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

This species might indeed merit a bit more research – the only paper I found on its breeding looked at only 7 nests (of which 3 failed). The HBW seems to be a fan, describing the vocalization as “loud, clear, sweet, quite rich and melodious” Me, I still prefer The National, despite the slightly disappointing latest album.

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Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway.

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

Helmeted Guineafowl seem to have some kind of paternity leave system in place within their flock – when the dominant male and female leave to breed, the second-highest-ranking male temporarily becomes flock leader ( HBW ). ” ( HBW ). Kind of like Dresden, I guess.

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Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The current influx has almost exclusively involved European breeding birds, probably due to weather conditions in mid-November.

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Geese Russia Europe 2009 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Grey-headed Lapwing- Vanellus cinereus breeds in north-east China and Japan between April and June and then migrate to spend the winter in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia and southern Japan.

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Australia Japan 2006 Cambodia 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.

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Hungary Eggs Fox India 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Alaska Day commemorates Alaska’s formal transfer from Russia to the United States in 1867. Among these lands are some of the most productive avian breeding grounds in the United States. Yukon Flats NWR is one of the most productive waterfowl breeding areas in North America. October 18 is a legal holiday in the 49th state.

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Alaska United States Puffins Wildlife 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For one, it’s made not in Poland, Russia, or Scandinavia, but in France, a country better known for distilling spirits from grapes and apples. Deciding what to drink on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? This may be your Anser. A few things make this Grey Goose stand out from the rest of the vodka flock.

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Geese Branding France Poland 134

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The Siberian Rubythroat seems to somewhat lack a proper inbuilt GPS system – while it breeds as far west as the Ural Mountains and winters as far est as Central India, it does not migrate through central Asia in large numbers (even though this would be the shortest way). So better not let a rubythroat bite you. .

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Russia Asia Philippines Taiwan 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147