10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
We are in the village of Finikas on the island of Syros in the Cyclades archipelago of Greece. Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. I was on a new sailing birdwatch tour well organised by Natural Greece and accompanied by their bird guide Andrea Bonetti.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). The year list has reached 2403 , a boost of 174 and the life list now stands at 3875 after beats’ efforts in Indonesia, South Africa and China added 39 ticks.
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). A foul-smelling wound might spell an infection. Liver disease? Fishy-smelling breath. Kidney disease makes a mouth smell like urine. Tuberculosis smells like tar. (In
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome. Idyll Days is a new and very welcome year-round offering, first released this past March by Brewery Ommegang.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
Our two newest contributors have shared from Mexico and China, bringing the countries birded this month (also including; Costa Rica, Greece, Serbia, USA, UK, India, UAE and New Zealand) to 10. beats have still managed to share 82 checklists and accounted for 737 species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Should I go to the Scilly Isles (in autumn Britain’s rarity hot spot) or to Greece for my birdwatching holiday? Greece won, as I was much keener to build my European list rather than add a few rarities to my non-existent British list. In September 1971 my birding career came to its first (and last) major crossroads.
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