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”.

Morocco 215

Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.” ” ( source ). ” Well, at least he was not involved in the slave trade.

Burma 189

Burma India Birds Indonesia 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse.

Birds 205

Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 205

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. I guessed that his mate was close by, incubating her eggs. There are just a few areas left where it still thrives.

Hungary 152

Hungary Eggs Fox India 152