10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Europe: The sun is scorching the area, and the birds are nowhere to be seen. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. The other two are motionless.

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

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Chile Argentina Raised Serbia 304

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

I had just ended my ten-day birding adventure in Ecuador (which is a story for another time) when I decided, since I had an amazing time, to prolong my trip a bit longer before heading back to Europe. Instinctively and with lightning speed I raised the camera lens but paused thinking my hasty movement might cause alarm with the soldiers.

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Colombia Birds Raised Ecuador 220

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all. Reva had the semi-natural feeling of a forgotten green oasis at the outskirts of a busy city. The eagle seemed well-used to people and paid no attention either.

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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Map by BirdLife International. I am talking 600 or 700+ bird species.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2013

Serbia holds 13 per cent of the European breeding population of this “electrified” species which is not only Endangered in Europe but also listed as Globally Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Raising the binoculars to teary eyes, I am trying to see the bird in the nest on a nearby pylon. An adult to raise its head.

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Falcons Serbia 2007 Europe 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

The scientists, who studied bird populations in Europe and China , speculate that urban areas may have some appeal for passerines that rural areas otherwise lack. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect.

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China Europe Research Falcons 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. The great thing about raising an education bird,” says Lisa, “is that you can do everything you’re never allowed to do with the wild ones.” Xena’s specialty is raising funds for pediatric cancer.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Raised Eagles Owls 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

No, seriously, a brown warbler with stripes in central Europe really means you are either looking at a Grasshopper Warbler or a Sedge Warbler. However, these are so rare in most of Europe that thinking you are looking at one essentially means you are fooling yourself and should return to considering Sedge and Grasshopper Warblers again.

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Europe Kazakhstan Sparrows Abandon 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2015

It resembled a Hooded Crow of east europe, only the grey parts were white – the Pied Crow , as it turned out to be. (Statistics would go in favour of the Cape Glossy Starling , as I later learned.). The next bird was some crow-like UFO observed from the shuttle bus. Crow-like has to be a crow, doesn’t it? Umm, yes, the bird?” “The

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Africa Botswana Birds Europe 211

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2023

It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ). We have almost forgotten that Manoj has promised us some creatures of the night, when he raised his hand to point at three Mottled Wood Owls right above us (cover photo), beautiful large Strix owls slightly amused by us.

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India Lions Boars Mammals 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2017

Perch are a fresh water species of fish that are native to Europe and N. The dorsal fin has stiff spines which can pierce a clumsy angler’s palm, but when raised they can be a defensive mechanism to avoid being swallowed. Now, the Great Crested Grebe and the perch. Asia, but have been introduced elsewhere.

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Fish Asia America Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

That paper raises an interesting question: “When less attractive people accept less attractive dates, do they persuade themselves that the people they choose to date are more physically attractive than others perceive them to be? 16% of urban nests were invaded by predators but 43% of rural nests were.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 197

Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal.

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Portugal Animal Welfare Farm Animal Farmed Animals 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

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. Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them.

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Baltimore Broker North America Raised 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. 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. According to R.D.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 202

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I observed my first GS eagles in India some 8 years ago, then the first for Europe in Greece only last December , and finally I have them in my home country list. But through binoculars I noticed small raised crests and supercilia joining on hindneck – Woodlarks !

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Moldova Birds Serbia Greece 119

Critter News

APRIL 15, 2009

Peta Europe has written to Pet Shop Boys with a request they are unable to agree to," reads a post on the band's official website. But the band admits the request "raises an issue worth thinking about". PETA has asked the group Pet Shop Boys to change their name to Rescue Shelter Boys. At first I thought that was from the Onion.

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PETA Cruelty Shelters Pets 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

After receiving the advice, “Try looking from the lock bridge below the weir” I was expecting a scene with mill races and canal boats being raised against flow and gravity. I have sightings from Scotland and Europe, but not from England, so it wasn’t going to get away without an attempt at an image.

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Industry Europe Raised Research 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

They have been a crucial part of the culture of the islands and forests where they are found for the last 50,000 years, and were amongst the first animals of the East to make it back to Europe with the earliest Portugese and Spanish explorations. The females, having selected a mate, will raise the chicks on their own.

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Indonesia Birds Australia Guinea 190

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. David Sibley (yeah, the one ) recently raised the question visiting birders (particularly from Germany, not so much from the UK – I am told!)

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North America Europe Asia America 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 143

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

raised in the infernal fur farms, which are nothing more than concentration camps, where non-human animals are subjugated and forced to live a life of torture and imprisonment waiting for their murder, sick and crazed due to the denial of their wild natures.

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Mexico Chinchillas Fur Raccoons 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. Of these three regions, the Cerrado has the least exposure on the international stage, which is a shame since the Cerrado is almost the size of Western Europe and in total holds about 5% of all life on Earth.

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Protection Brazil Parrots Paraguay 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

Mary’s peculiar and unlucky death by falconry at the age of 25 was only the latest in a series of blows dealt to the fortunes of the House of Valois-Burgundy and its duchy – and one that would set into motion a dynastic rivalry that would plague Europe for centuries. Good birding and happy drinking! Brouwerij Verhaeghe: Duchesse de Bourgogne.

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Hunting France Falcons Horses 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

They belong to the same species like those found back in Europe, Sus scrofa – which inhabits a belt stretching from northern Africa and Europe all the way to Indonesia, but a different subspecies, S.s. Back on dirt tracks by a Desert Wheatear decorated bush (bellow), to spot five or six Wild boars disappearing among the bushes.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 224

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s most attractive and desired bird species: the Great Bustard Otis tarda.

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Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

They are, after all, the feathered bearers of actual children if the old stories are to be believed, and their shadow lies long over birder and non-birder alike.

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Pedigree North America South Carolina Brazil 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ). We have almost forgotten that Manoj has promised us some creatures of the night, when he raised his hand to point at three Mottled Wood Owls right above us, beautiful large Strix owls slightly amused by us.

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Lions India Mammals Boars 226

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I discovered very much by accident that questions have been raised by British birders about the accuracy of some of the book’s photographs; this is the to-do at Birdfair I referred to in the beginning of the review. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011). Is the bird pictured what the caption says it is?

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 144

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.). And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

Red Grouse by English ornithologist and artist John Gould (1804-1881), from The Birds of Europe. (The controversial management of Scotland’s grouse moors for these hunts is discussed in last week’s edition of Birds and Booze.).

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some of the lazier Common Moorhens apparently try to pass the arduous work of raising their chicks on to other species -a paper describes how Little Bitterns are utilized as surrogate parents. None other than W.S. of the German Anglers Association. I am giving them the typical consultant answer: It depends.

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Birds Geese Fish Industry 147

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

and Europe. Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn’t have to pass a test to mate. 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

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

After all, neither Bill nor Jeff had ever seen one before despite having each birded in Europe more than I had. I don’t know when I will get to Europe again but look forward to the day that I get back, deep into a forest, and see the mythical creature that is a Black Woodpecker. And if I dip again?

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Woodpeckers Austria Europe Hungary 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Having come back to Mexico from Europe, I chose to make my first home outing to my local lake, Lake Cuitzeo. Fortunately, the very abundant 2018 rains raised the water level to heights I had never seen, and so far, that seems to be making up for this year’s poor rains. The west half of the lake is never more than a few feet deep.

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