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. I’ve also seen foxes in many other countries.

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Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Beside natural grasslands, they breed in arable fields (primarily alfalfa) where there is no grazing, but they risk being killed by combine harvesters. Not the strictly protected bustards, but Red Foxes, Brown Hares, Pheasants , as well as Hooded Crows and Rooks. What is the latest outcome of all this?

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

It takes days to find a fox for the girl and her eagle to hunt, and the first effort does not go well. But then, a fox is sighted and we get truly magnificent scenes of the bird in flight and all attention is focused on the beauty of this Golden Eagle. The Eagle Huntress has been well received in Europe and the U.S.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 101

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

and Europe. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. They decided to study foxes, which are closely related to wolves and dogs. Foxes that slunk back in fear and snapped their teeth didn’t get to breed. Others lashed out and were killed.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

But not in Europe either. For Daurian Redstarts, university campuses can also be crime scenes – one recent paper reports on a Daurian Redstart fledgling being attacked and killed by a magpie on the grounds of Hebei Normal University despite attempts by the female parent to defend the chick. Not an in-vitro photo.

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