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”.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
That is very cold for the south of Germany. This thrush is extremely common in urban and suburban Germany and one of the most conspicuous bird species here, comparable to the American Robin in North America. A few dead birds were collected by authorities and sent to a laboratory for investigation.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Apparently, as captain of a ship, he collected specimens in Southeast Asia including Borneo, and sent them to a museum in Germany. Theodor Hugo Storm (1850-1927), a German mariner who later emigrated to the USA (source: HBW). For those with an urgent need for additional irrelevant information, check out a thread on Birdforum.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2021
So, here’s a collection of wet birds. A wet Blackcap (Visselhoevede, Germany). Naturally, being in the extended service industry (consulting), I want to help. A wet Grey-eyed Bulbul (Xishuangbanna, China). A wet African Pygmy Kingfisher (Mkuze, South Africa). A wet Daurian Redstart (Shennongjia, China).
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2022
Apparently, while in Egypt waiting for a boat to return to Germany he collected specimens of the bird which is now named after him. Kittlitz’s Plover is named after Friedrich Heinrich, Freiherr von Kittlitz (1799-1874), a Prussian artist, explorer and naturalist. Never happens to me when I am waiting for a bus.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2023
” (source: Fritz Hillenbrand, Underground Humour in Nazi Germany: 1933-1945, Routledge: London). The phrase itself referred to the yellow-brown uniform … It was also used to describe long-time Nazis who were given important positions in the Party or one of its organizations.”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds.
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