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. Which leaves me with quite a few choices – practically the entire tropical belt, right?

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

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. Sedge Warbler (left) and Grasshopper Warbler (right – duh!). The only thing to focus on then is the head pattern and flanks & undertail coverts.

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Europe Kazakhstan Sparrows Abandon 225

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. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare.

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Portugal Animal Welfare Farm Animal Farmed Animals 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

While walking along the beach one morning, I noted a fruiting Dagger Cactus right near the beach, at the top was a bird just destroying one of the purple fruits near the top of plant’s formidable crown. 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 182

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 121

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 America Asia 145

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 210

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 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 145

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. Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right.

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Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 101

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We follow the tire tracks in an off-white, salty soil and then, without a word of warning, our guide/driver turns into the bushes, driving left and right… until one and then another Short-eared Owl flushes in front of us. A bit more winding and the first endangered Indian wild ass, Equus hemionus khur , is in front of us.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 235

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 236

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. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011). The Collins guide covers all of Europe, contains drawings rather than photographs, and is widely considered one of the best field guides in the world. (It’s

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 150

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. and Europe. What’s at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry. As for the doglike ones, “they did just as well as puppies right out of the box,&# Hare says.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 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. And then, in that perfect, peaceful moment, I will raise my hand, making sure the bird can see it clearly, and I will extend my middle finger high. What happened?

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Woodpeckers Austria Europe Hungary 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. And if we keep exploring the undelved nooks and crannies of our globe, we’re sure to make up the difference, right? How many have we lost, have we never even known? What a horror! What a disaster!

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 173

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. And, that’s where the resemblance to a typical field guide ends.

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 208

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

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. Four eBird hotspots located at the top and the slopes of the mountain have listed 85 species so far, but without any waterbirds, this is impressive in its own right. and am not a lifestyle writer to comment on those claims.

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Birds 2017 Eagles Otters 211

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. I understand why he writes this; the speed at which billions of Passenger Pigeons disappeared is scary, far slower than the whittling down of bird numbers in Europe over centuries. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

Yes, that really is a bird and it doesn’t have anything to do with a tiny country in Europe. Looking like a blend of pigeon, grouse, and feathered marble cake, this fast flying species zips to the edge of a small sewage treatment pond in Eilat right at dusk pretty much every night. Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! :

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Costa Rica Eagles Birds 181

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 Groups Family 279