10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”. Here they were easy to overlook.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2019
Barn Swallows are pretty much anywhere in the world (I just saw them back in Germany). The Cattle Egret (or Eastern Cattle Egret , to be exact, but that would mess with my alphabetic order) can be seen in farmland around Shanghai. During my last trip to Germany, several people pointed out locations of Common Kingfisher.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
It also used to be a rather common bird in the South of Germany, but the German population has crashed and collapsed (almost?) If it still breeds in Germany at all, which it might do, it is so rare by now that pairs do not get reported to anywhere except to the relevant nature conservation authorities. What on earth?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. Generally, I need to have cleared immigration and/or spent some time in the country actually visiting it. African Darter and Reed Cormorant. Yellow-billed Stork.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock. Changing tastes in beer, now leaning towards more modern flavors imported from Britain and Germany – as well as the privations of two world wars – only seemed to seal the fate of saison.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. In Germany, they occur throughout but are considerably rarer e.g. around the Baltic or Berlin than they are in the SW.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556.
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