10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Still, the romantic notion of beery terroir remains persuasive and in some corners of Europe, rustic beer styles persist, despite the homogenizing effects of – or perhaps in reaction against – modern industry. Historically, saison was a beer tied to time as much as it was to place.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

A few dead birds were collected by authorities and sent to a laboratory for investigation. The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years. and species breeding in cavities are less affected. The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Here in central Europe, dippers – more precisely the White-throated or European Dipper – are rather common breeding birds in many areas. Many wintering “Black-bellied” Dippers in Germany are colour-banded to investigate numbers and site fidelity. Crazy, I know. And you know what? Luckily they aren’t.

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Germany 2016 Hamburgers Austria 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

We started the series with the idea that too many people travel away from Europe thinking that there is no real nature left there. This being said, we are currently investigating options to team up with a group of American naturalists to produce a series of guidebooks on North American areas.

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. Their ecology in Germany is being investigated, but the results have so far been inconclusive. Germany is underrated as a birding destination.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). If such human food is not available, the Yellow-billed Chough goes back to its original diet of (at least in Europe) grasshoppers, as described here.

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Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Richard noticed a variety of pipits that foraged on this grass playing field and after some observation decided that further investigation was called for, as one type seemed larger and longer tailed than any pipits with which he was familiar, and they occurred in large flocks, also an unusual feature for South African pipits.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 221

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

and Europe. To investigate why the kids made this counter intuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy. Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern, central, and eastern Europe and across Asia as far east as Japan and Korea. This was before I realized that they were mythical.)

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Woodpeckers Hungary Europe Japan 177

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Oh, well, one more left to chase another day… It is sunset now, I hear some noisy birds from large Oriental Planes and go to investigate, when a shadow glides above me and lands on a plane branch – a sparrowhawk! And deep inside I feel it was the Audouin’s.

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Greece Falcons Madagascar Africa 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. It therefore qualifies as Vulnerable. Later that day, his photos and videos will be hotly analysed and debated.

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Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

I’m not French, and I don’t follow football, but I generally don’t pass up an opportunity investigate holiday drinking traditions. The chicken, which the ancient Egyptians called “the bird that gives birth everyday”, was introduced to Europe by the fifth century B.C., I suspect I won’t be the only one drinking French wine this weekend.

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2016 France Chickens Fowl 101