10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

And I didn’t pay enough attention because one very dark eagle flew by at the same time, an adult Greater Spotted Eagle. These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here. Two hundred yards further, we found another Greater Spotted Eagle!

Geese 141

Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 141

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Two White Storks awaited us there, choosing to stay for the winter instead of wasting all those calories to fly down to South Africa and back, and above us, seven young White-tailed Eagles were thermaling. I managed to find one 3rd winter Great Black-backed Gull. The tally ended up as 200 Black-headed (above) and 7 Common Gulls (bellow).

Serbia 166

Serbia Birds Ukraine Europe 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga. The Greater Spotted Eagle mostly breeds from Ukraine eastward and in Serbia is only a rare but regular wintering species (several birds are recorded every winter). Greater Spotted Eagle by Artemy Voikhansky. (The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List).

Serbia 199

Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. We Germans of course chose a much more aggressive national bird to match our (hopefully only past) militaristic instincts: the white-tailed eagle. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

Birds 180

Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 180