10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Queen of Spain Fritillary , photographed in mid November Clouded yellow – another common November butterfly For the autumn or winter visitor, the biggest draw is the flock of Lesser Whitefronted Geese that in recent years have been regular and reliable wintering birds on the lake.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Buffalo 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

For example, the White-headed Duck is nowadays a rarity in Europe (okay, excluding Spain, I know… that Spain …), but until some 50 years ago, it used to breed in Serbia. The hide overlooking the breeding colony of Red-footed Falcons.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

Instead of wintering in Africa and breeding in Europe, growing numbers of the birds now appear to be staying put in Spain and Portugal. Dependence on landfills means the birds spend less energy foraging, especially outside of breeding season. And it enables them to begin breeding earlier, at the best nearby nesting sites.

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Portugal Spain Research Europe 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

I’ll start off by naming the univerally accepted species, the House Sparrow propper Passer domesticus , the Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus and the ill-named Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis , which occurs from Spain all the way to central Asia and is rather difficult to find in the former.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

So, yes, it was Spain. Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra.

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Spain Europe Industry Rodents 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. Distribution of the Ural Owl in the Tara NP in the breeding season (Rajkovic and Pantovic).

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

According to some sources, when the so-called Pilgrims settled in for the First Thanksgiving Dinner with the local Native Americans, in 1620, they dined on Turkey, and this Turkey came from the Old World, from stock that was originally brought to Spain by Columbus. According to R.D.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

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.

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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2020

Too many cases in Spain and the USA, if more people bring the virus to Costa Rica, our health system could be overrun in days. Breeding season that is, and it’s just around the corner. Sooner than we expect, the government announces the closing of all borders. It means that spring is almost here!

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Costa Rica Birds Spain New York 232

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Not only is it common and coastal, its global range is also largely restricted to the Mediterranean, with a few colonies also found along the western Black Sea shores, the lower Danube river, and into the Atlantic along the coast of Spain to the French Bretagne. So there you have it: conservative taxonomy leads to unfortunate common names.

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Europe Spain Italy Ireland 125

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

MARCH 15, 2024

In Europe, Lesser Kestrels are birds of the Mediterranean zone, nesting mainly in Spain and Portugal, southern France, Sardinia, the Balkans and parts of Greece. However, in Southern Spain a small number of birds are resident. This isn’t a new development linked to global warming, but was first noted 80 years ago.

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Falcons Spain Europe 2012 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2024

At the time of writing, my British year list stands at a modest but satisfactory 139, while my European list is on 173, thanks to a visit to southern Spain in February. Wader watching in spring is always exciting, as so many of these birds are transformed when they acquire their breeding finery.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

If you have been on the receiving end of any guided birding you know that a good guide can make or break the trip and João was up there with the best in terms of his knowledge of the local sites, breeding birds and visitors, coping easily with our constant questioning.

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Portugal Legislation 2000 Adoptable 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2011

Undisturbed through thousands of generations by man or land predators, the birds accumulated piles of poop several meters thick and sat atop them with a proprietorial pride in huge colonies, breeding, feeding and creating even more guano. Previous agreements on territory and shared revenue failed and thus begin the Poop Wars did.

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Bolivia Chile America Spain 192

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

And then there are the birds… Green-backed or Amazonian White-tailed Trogon Asa Wright Nature Centre is most renowned for its resident breeding colony of unearthly Oilbirds. The food is delicious, the company delightful, and the accomodations extremely comfortable.

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Trinidad South America America Ecuador 247

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

and species breeding in cavities are less affected. The virus was also found in Spanish mosquitoes in 2006, but an outbreak in Spain’s avifauna has not occurred (yet – or wasn’t noticed). The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

reduce traffic casualties amongst Badgers , get the White-tailed Eagle back as a breeding bird, increase the number of protected plant species etc.). Take these large savannah-like areas in Extremadura, Spain, for example (the Dehesas). so far you have focussed on European nature. Does this sound vague?

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. Monk Parakeet is the only parrot species that builds its own nest.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If it hasn’t begun already, the grape harvest should be getting underway in Spain this month. If the storks have been making the great journey back and forth between Spain and Africa long before people even began making wine, the feature grape of this single-varietal wine – the green-skinned Albariño – is a more recent arrival to Catalonia.

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2017 Spain California Condor California 114

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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Spain Terrapins Eagles Europe 223

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Image by Adam Riley Of the 115 African species now listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered, nearly half occur on the islands surrounding Africa or are non-breeding migrants to Africa. There has been growth in the breeding population at the colonies in Morocco (now estimated at 106 breeding pairs and approximately 500 birds in total).

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Not many European countries have their single-country guides (the exception being UK, Spain and a few others with a strong in-country publishing scene). For the last two decades, Europe and the greater Mediterranean have been covered by one of the best field guides anywhere: “Collins Bird Guide” by Lars Svensson et al.,

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Cyprus Saudi Arabia Europe Birds 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2019

At a parking lot, Steve hears the song of a Sardinian Warbler (a species that I have rarely observed, often after the breeding/singing season, and as a rule, half-hidden in the foliage) and plays it back from his phone, so the warbler might be tempted to check which other male dares to enter his territory. Steve answers: Bonelli’s Eagle !

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Terrapins Eagles Europe Rats 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.

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California Condor Oregon California Zoos 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2019

Why this one city alone would be named for birds, in this country of 1,800 species, is unclear, but it could very well be a designation inspired by the nearby Islas Ballestas, an uninhabited island group just offshore from Pisco and home to enormous breeding colonies of Humboldt Penguins , Inca Terns , Peruvian Boobies , and many other species.

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 124

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

It starts as follows: “Historical variations (1966–2016) in the exposure to inorganic elements in raptors of South West Spain have been little studied.” According to one paper , the Spotted Redshank is the German among the waders, at least in Finland: its arrival and departure on the breeding grounds are the most predictable.

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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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Germany Sharks Morocco Europe 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This population’s breeding range is covers much of the Eastern Arctic, from northern Labrador up to Ellesmere, in as far west as the Kivaliq region (Rankin Inlet, Arviat). This tiny passerine winters in Africa, places like Tanzania, Nigeria, Somalia. From the Tundra to the African Steppes.

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Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 200