10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. You are likely to meet more serious birders in North Norfolk in one day than anywhere else in Britain, or anywhere in Europe for that matter).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2014
even before I took binoculars, I was always chasing, hmm… impressionable experiences. The intensity of experience is not the same, but, e.g. focusing on a single bird and trying to solve the puzzle… or finding the rarest owl of India , that was a mind-blowing one. Birding Europe Serbia wetlands' Town squares?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2017
Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. Significantly, The Eagle Huntress begins with an older eagle hunter releasing his Golden Eagle. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. 2022 (available in Europe from Helm/Bloombury). Vagrancy in Birds. Press, Feb.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Ecotourism will no doubt arrive soon, and with luck its revenue will prove that there’s more to be gained from protecting wildlife than selling it to hunters.” “I would certainly recommend Serbia to visiting birders.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!
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