10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?

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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. This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right?

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera. Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. Of the 300 hummingbird species across the globe, North America only sees fewer than two dozen of them. Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes!

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Texas North America Alaska America 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). The pages are labeled on the left with the genus name (for example, Larus) and on the right with the brief title: Gulls.

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2004 North America America Europe 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You drive towards Jones Beach then hang a left down Ocean Parkway, ignoring the birder sitting next to you pointing out a possible Merlin and newly arrived Brant because you need to drive at just the right speed. The bird was right there, they said, pointing vaguely north. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K. And vice versa.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. North America may currently feel very smug, safe and sound. Yes, there is a bird in this picture. Of course you have already spotted it.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

These two shorebirds are exceedingly common in western Europe. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America.

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Austria Spain 2019 Birds 153

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

As of the last few days, I have a lovely young couple, with a nest right out side my gallery door, in a palm tree. Of course, I will need to mention our local import, now spreading its way across North America, much like the English House Sparrow and the European Starling have , t he Eurasian Collared-dove , Streptopelia decaocto decaocto.

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San Jose North America Mexico America 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It’s not that I wasn’t in the right spot. After all, neither Bill nor Jeff had ever seen one before despite having each birded in Europe more than I had. It is not right what they have done to me and I will have my revenge. And if I dip again? Well, that doesn’t even bear thinking about. What happened?

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Woodpeckers Austria Europe Hungary 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You could say that the right-brain, the part of the brain that is intuitive and creative, goes first, and the left-brain, where the logic resides, comes in second to refine and substantiate the initial impression. The process doesn’t totally ignore plumage. Species Accounts. Gulls Simplified covers 25 species. Range Maps.

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

There is actually quite the overlapping avifauna between North America and Europe. ” Easy, right? signed copies right here ! And while neither of us have ever birded in either place we have both seen some birds that occur in ol’ Blighty and the Emerald Isle. In fact, you have to!

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Ireland North America Europe America 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! Since the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide (published as “Birds of Europe” in the US) from 2009, the field guide market for European guides is practically dead. Donna). ==. Tristan). ==.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

. - Delete these 6 letters, leaving 4 letters remaining. - Rearrange these 4 remaining letters and you will end up with a rare avian visitor to North America. From the pictures in the guides I have from Europe and Asia, it looks pretty cute. On the RIGHT, she saw a new bird that she imagined was from the SOUTH.

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2011 North America Asia Europe 140

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

In North America, at least in the eastern part of it, we celebrate the return of the Baltimore Oriole to parks and farms this time of year. This revelation shocked me when I first read it, but as it it turns out the troupial is not one of those next parasites and lays and leaves like North American cowbirds and cuckoos in Europe.

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

Now, if you quickly call to mind the pattern of Asian species reaching Europe as vagrants, you will remember that most are from Siberia. Any other region, even central Asia, scarcely provides us with vagrants here in Europe. Why is that so? And here is the series of pictures I was able to take before the bird took off.

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Germany Sharks Morocco Europe 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. A Sage Thrasher – a vagrant from western North America and only one of a handful of New York State records – was found on the other side of the Hudson River over in Columbia County in early November.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. For many North American bird enthusiasts, Common Ringed Plover ‘s are a bird they rarely, if ever, get to see. Here they are a common breeding bird, one of our two species that migrate from here to Europe and then south.

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Eggs North America Breeding Europe 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Driving north along the Ionian seacoast through the city of Igoumenitsa, there is a place where the main artery takes you right, further away from the sea – follow it for 150 metres (500 ft) and then turn left just before a small stadium. Further north, I reach the Kestrini River and turn left.

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Greece Dogs Pelicans Fish 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

All the birds face right (with some exceptions, like the elegantly posed, back-to-back adult breeding Common and Thick-billed Murres) and the flying images can always be followed in a pattern, even when they interspersed with the smaller vignettes. 1997), and Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004).

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

But I found myself wondering things like: If Common Ringed Plovers migrate from here through Europe, and Semipalmated through North America, what happens to the different type of offspring from a single mixed brood? Do the Common Ringed type migrate through Europe and the Semipalmated head south?

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Research Europe Iceland Panama 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

I wonder if birders in North America before European colonization were eager to watch the colors of a singing male Indigo Bunting go from shaded black to shining sapphire blue? From conversations I have had with Tico birders, they would be likewise elated to lay eyes on the fish eagle of North America.

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Between these succulents, bulbs and daisies, more than 3,000 species of flowering plants compete for pollination rights, resulting the world’s greatest wildflower show.

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South Africa Africa New Zealand Asia 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2011

Any season is good for looking for birds if you have the right mindset. Combined with New Zealand’s isolation this means there are not the strong seasonal shifts in birdlife here that you’d find in an equivalent area in North America or Europe.

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New Zealand Sanctuary North America Guinea 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2016

Indeed, and here I am showing my age, there once was a time when all the large gulls of Eurasia and North America with a pale grey mantle and a black wing-tip were labelled as “Herring Gulls”, and the gulling was easy. argentatus in Scandinavia.

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Germany North America Europe Game 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. This is where they got their name. According to R.D. Which would be weird.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

You may know (although probably not since you’ll likely reside in North America) that a Siberian Rubythroat showed up over the winter 2015/16 in a small village in the Netherlands, an extremely rare and highly sought-after vagrant from Siberia (duh!). Arctic Tern , Große Rosin, Germany. Northern Gannet , Liguria coast, Italy.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. What was yours? Let us know in the comments…see you there! Adam’s BBOTY – Lammergeier.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 197

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. The expression on her face, trying to figure out which of the two is Mr. Right – that is to say, which is the more beautiful — is, to this human anyway, priceless.

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 105

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

You see, there is one other species of dabbling duck in Europe that’s about the size of a Garganey and that shows a very pale head: the Marbled Teal. Which makes me very happy as it means that I have had every right to be confused, and that I have also likely seen the smallest Gadwall ever recorded in living history.

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Ducks Germany North America Species 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

In the right season, with a little luck, we often find it, and sometimes it perches high and long enough that we can admire its scimitar of a bill, its stern face pattern, and even the patch of rusty red on the undertail that gives the species its English and its scientific names. Wicked, right? at Princeton University in 1990.

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

This unusual idea cannot work with the outlines of USA or Europe, but Thailand has such a narrow and elongated shape that the map nicely fits next to a bird. Despite having 30 illustrators, I do not notice much difference in style, which clearly was the case with Robson’s book (or even with National Geographic Birds of North America).

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird By Jochen • March 10, 2011 • 9 comments Tweet Share There is a lot of whining associated with colours and Europe’s birds. Wicked, right?

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 167