10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2023
That is why I am so pleased to see the new “Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification Guide” being illustrated with nearly 1400 colour photographs of the 45 species of gulls found in the Western Palearctic. From my experience, the gulling season is definitively winter. The colder – the better.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2015
And that is where I started to experiment with the eBird. Birds city birds crows eBird Europe Serbia' There are some student papers that I still have to lay my fingers on, but we do not have a broad base-line study of number and position of colonies or the number of nests within them. Nor the funds to hire the researchers.
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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.
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.
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.
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. You can get a sense of the breadth of my European birding experience by how many of my lifers have the word “Common” in their names. I, of course, love a good river delta.
Critter News
MAY 15, 2009
If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research. I really hope this passes.
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