10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

Birds that nest in southern Africa winter to the north in the tropics, while birds that breed in southern Europe and Turkey migrate south to, you guessed it, tropical Africa. I wonder whether birds that breed in Europe ever meet up with those nest in southern Africa? Cyprus is one of those places where anything can turn up.

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Cyprus Africa Europe Asia 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2016

A man walking his two small dogs is passing by the eagle, looking down at grass and not seeing the largest raptor in Europe. The eagle seems well used to people and pays no attention.

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Europe Otters Eagles Birds 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

For Europe, only very few books exist that cover the topic at all. So here it is, the review of Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen. Was this going to be just another British-centred book of little use to the rest of Europe? Well, first things first: the book’s title.

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2024

That is, species that migrate down western Europe in autumn but rarely cross the Sahara Desert. They stay in south-west Europe and north-west Africa. When we look at it closely, we find that this is not the case. In fact, the breeding birds are overwhelmingly dominated by pre-Saharan migrants.

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Cape Verde Europe Breeding Africa 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2012

That is the minimum amount the complete set of The Birds of Europe , produced between 1832 and 1837, is expected to fetch at auction. Then you better have $75,000!

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Europe Birds 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2021

And ten years later, I found my name among the data providers in this magnificent book – possibly the most important ornithological publication in Europe in the 21st century, so far. Hence, study the Species and habitats and, combined with Biogeographic patterns in the distribution chapter, construct new bird tours of Europe.

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Europe Breeding Birds Denmark 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Collins Bird Guide covers Europe, North Atlantic islands, much of North Africa and the Middle East. may be more usual for northern Europe? Europe’s relief makes it a particularly hard continent to present bird distributions on a small scale and I wish it was possible to enlarge the maps.

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

The only place (outside England) where I have seen wild Fallow Deer in Europe is in Spain’s Coto Doñana, where they are numerous. I’ve had many sightings of Nutria (we call them Coypu) in Europe, where this South American animal is now widespread. A few are easy, such as the Egyptian Fruit Bat, the largest bat we have in Europe.

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Fur Deer Boars Estonia 213

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 229

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

When the ground-breaking A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe was first published 70 years ago, the Red Grouse ( Lagopus scoticus ), was still regarded as Britain’s only endemic bird, with the Field Guide treating it as a separate species to the closely related Willow Grouse ( Lagopus lagopus ).

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Species Europe Game illegal 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few places boast so many different bird species in such a small area — over 900 species (more than Europe, or all of the United States and Canada combined), including 75 different families, like 51 species of hummingbirds, 48 warblers, and 45 tanagers. Travelling from Eastern Europe to Central America was also an 8 hours back in time trip.

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Costa Rica San Jose Nepal Europe 248

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

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Europe Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lion – much easier to see than an Aardvark In contrast to East Africa, encounters with mammals while out birding in Europe are relatively few. Over the years, though, I have enjoyed a number of memorable mammal sightings in Europe. Otters may be widespread in Europe, but they are usually elusive and difficult to see.

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Fur Otters Estonia Bulgaria 190

Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare. This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle.

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Animal Welfare Pigs Europe Welfare 100

Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. That's good news. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".

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Seals Europe Norway Culling 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. Tags: UK europe spain pigs factory farm. Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. Conditions are so bad, some pigs are resorting to cannibalism.

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Pigs Europe Investigation Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Very occasionally though, one might stray down the eastern seaboard of the USA, but for the most part, those that breed in arctic Canada migrate towards Europe and swell numbers there during the winter. The Common Ringed Plover’s two-toned call is lower and less sophisticated than the Semi-palmated’s.

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Iceland Breeders Stray Canada 219

Critter News

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Tags: europe activism huntingdon animal rights.

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Animal Rights Europe Rights Animal Cruelty 100

Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness.

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Pigs Investigation Europe Industry 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2023

During his birding travels through Europe, he came up with the idea for Birdingplaces: why was it so hard to get good birding info in most countries? Would it be possible to unite European birders online and create a site guide for birding in Europe? Yes, it was possible. That’s how Birdingplaces was born in 2019.

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Europe Netherlands Namibia Cuba 210

Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Tags: canada norway europe trade seals.

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Seals Europe Norway Canada 100

Reddit Animals

MARCH 24, 2023

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Europe Animal 52

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2024

There aren’t many places in Europe where you can see four species of shrikes in one day, but this is one of them. Red-backed Shrikes semed particularly common this year, and we did see Woodchats, Lesser Greys and Masked Shrikes. Incidentally, what we used to call Olivaceous Warbler in Spain has now become Isabelline Warbler.

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Greece Turtles Breeding Europe 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2023

Finding Birds in Northern Greece offers information on how to reach the best sites, detailed hand-drawn maps, and notes on what birds you might see once you get there.

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Greece Macedonia Bulgaria Gambia 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

As she notes, Eastern Europe contains significant pockets of agriculturally undeveloped land, and thus has a far greater diversity of species “from invertebrates to large carnivores” than in Northern Europe. By Miriam Darlington. Tin House, Portland, Oregon, 297 pp., US $27.95, CAN $36.95.

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Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

Reddit Animals

AUGUST 1, 2022

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Europe Pandas Animal 52

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2020

Not far from its capital Lisbon lies Cabo de Roca, the westernmost point in mainland Europe. But like Spain, its only neighbor on the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal is cut off from the rest of Europe by the steep, natural border formed by the Pyrenees.

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2015 Portugal France Europe 157

Critter News

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Tags: blog europe PETA.

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PETA Europe Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2024

Tucked away at the extreme eastern end of the Mediterranean, Cyprus is regarded politically as part of Europe, but when it comes to birds it’s very much Middle Eastern in flavour, with a number of species that are hard or even impossible to find in Europe, plus a trio of endemics.

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Cyprus Breeders Falcons Hunters 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Now, it is much easier for me to achieve first-time sightings of species in Europe than it is in Mexico, at this point of the game. Dunlins , Black-bellied Plovers ( known as Grey Plovers in Europe), a Whimbrel , and the inevitable Mallards and Rock Pigeons , all turned up to make me feel at home. But this time, I could.

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Spain Mexico Europe North America 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Fittingly, this revolutionary style is a product of Europe’s Age of Revolutions, being first introduced by the Austrian brewer Anton Dreher in 1841, at the beginning of what was perhaps the most tumultuous decade of the European nineteenth century.

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Boston Austria Industry Europe 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As Aristotle noted, this is also true in Europe, where the most common swallow is the cosmopolitan Barn Swallow ( Hirundo rustica ). Keulemans (1842-1912).

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2016 Europe New York Africa 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2024

The Victorian naturalist Abel Chapman, describing Doñana, called it a little piece of Africa in Europe. Most are mistakes by those who try to understand Iberia in the classic spring-summer-autumn-winter manner. That could equally apply to much of the south of the peninsula. It has a wet and a dry season and the birds move accordingly.

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Africa Spain Europe Breeding 248

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2024

I have looked for this bird a few times in the region and would like to see it here although I know that it is very widespread and far more common in southern Europe. Cirl Bunting Rock Bunting , of course, eluded me once again as they always seem to do. Some nice sightings of Eurasian Linnet and Red-backed Shrike nearly made up for it though.

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Europe Groups Breeding Birds 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2024

Adult Egyptian Vulture showing detail of its head The bird, a summer visitor to Europe from winter quarters in the Sahel, is in decline across the continent. I don’t share Verner’s total disgust with the landed bird but I do agree that seeing this bird on the wing is something quite special. Its stronghold is the Iberian Peninsula.

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2004 Spain Agenda Italy 235

Reddit Animals

JULY 2, 2021

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Europe Fish Animal 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Kerkini is one of the most important wintering areas throughout Europe. Overwintering raptors include Greater Spotted , Golden , and Imperial Eagles. Greater Flamingos stay at the lake in their thousands. Also, there are more than 44 species of mammals: Otter , Wildcat , Grey Wolf , Beech Martens , Wild Boar , and Golden Jackal.

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Greece Wildlife Boars Otters 264