Eggs Game Hunters Switzerland 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.”
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
David Tomlinson If you are American then you will no doubt know Perdix perdix as the Gray Partridge , an introduced game bird now widespread on the prairies of Canada and the northern states of the USA. I guessed that his mate was close by, incubating her eggs. These are hardy birds – they have to be to survive a Canadian winter.
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