10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. In Germany, they occur throughout but are considerably rarer e.g. around the Baltic or Berlin than they are in the SW. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. It is the claws that give them away, their black nail polish.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Particularly the latter – Nabang – would in the past easily have merited its own post, but recent developments there that now make the place a bit like the former border between West and East Germany changed that. eBird calls the Asian Green Bee-eater a “small, dainty bee-eater”, which sounds nice and peaceful.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 141

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Fortunately for the buntings, they seem to detect most cuckoo eggs smuggled in (75% in one study). A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). Better safe than sorry.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 222

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

Boat-tailed Grackles count eggs and chicks as part of their diet and they were well represented here today. Birding Northeastern Germany: Day 3, Part 1 Hunting for Birds in Huntington Beach About the Author Redgannet Redgannet has been working for over 25 years as a crew member/flight attendant. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 117