10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2011
All our six endemics have exclusive or partial populations living in forest habitats – exclusive being the Cyprus Jay Garrulus glandarius glazneri , Cyprus Coal Tit Periparus ater cypriotes , Cyprus Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae and Cyprus Scops Owl Otus scops cyprius. That’s quite a lot!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
In Cyprus it also means that the hunters and trappers are active again. BirdLife Cyprus started their Fall monitoring program weeks ago. It really is just too damn dangerous to go there without protection if you’re holding a pair of binoculars, looking like a non-local, and driving up back roads obviously looking for birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2011
And the water treatment facilities built to support them are kept wet throughout the year, even in the blistering heat of summer in Cyprus. There’s a nice hide there that provides a great view but admittedly offers hardly any protection from the wind during rough weather (the hide is marked in the image below).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Therefore, I was quite surprised when I learned that Helm has taken the gauntlet and, this January, published the “Birds of Cyprus” by Colin Richardson and Richard Porter. pounds to carry around, “Birds of Cyprus” (BOC) has 256 pages and weighs only one pound. Unlike “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG) with 416 pages and 1.7
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?
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