10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2024
However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). It’s the only Dutch eagle. Our eagle makes Baldy look imparfait, even a bit manqué. Buffon 5 – Jefferson 0.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
In his first chapter, on the Raven, Moss is an enthusiastic borrower from Bernd Heinrich’s classic The Mind of the Raven , and in chapter ten (about which more below) a good deal is sourced from a 2022 book, The Bald Eagle , by Jack E. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. What claptrap.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
Booted Eagle by Kostas Papadopoulos The next morning was a lazy one, a late breakfast and even later excursion. Later in the day, roadside birds included a Booted Eagle and a Levant Sparrowhawk. What amazed me is that, instead of the usual 6 or 8 slices, this pizza was cut into tiny, bite-size slices!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2019
In an unhurried half-day of birding, we racked up over 90 species, including killers like Denham’s Bustard , Northern Carmine-throated Bee-eater , and Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow. The raptors exceeded expectations in both quantity and quality, with lots of vultures, eagles, and a magnificent Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Already recorded this winter are Black-throated Diver , Goosander and several Greater Scaups , together with Ferruginous and Tufted Ducks and the regulars, Common Goldeneye , Caspian Gull , Pygmy Cormorant and White-tailed Eagle.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2022
I’ll choose to say that gray is also a color, as a shout out to the gorgeous Black-chinned Sparrow at the top of this article. I’ve said it before, but this large raptor with the massive, eagle-like bill is not a Hawk or Eagle , but a genetic Falcon. A Black-vented Oriole , just showing off.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Checking the eBird now, a bunch of local birders visited the lake a dozen days later, to find 200 Spanish Sparrows , Eastern Black-eared Wheatear , Western Rock Nuthatch , Sardinian and Cetti’s Warblers , Zitting Cisticolas and Calandra Larks , Woodchat Shrike , Caspian Tern , Temminck’s Stint – that we dipped! A great day, thanks to Clive.
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