Europe Raised Sparrows Species 
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. I already have a history of searches for this species.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2014
There’s no way around it as the various species are reasonably common, and you will surely want to identify them. 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!).
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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. The Feral Pigeon and the House Sparrow came the day after, when in the lush green oasis of the Sanitas nursery tea garden I noticed the announcement of the next meeting of the Botswana Bird Club. Umm, yes, the bird?” “The
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Checking my annual list, I am where I usually am at this time of year: several species short of 200. Still, this way or another, the year is ending with some glorious species, e.g. a rare Greater Spotted Eagle. And so, driving through the snowfall I spotted what I believed to be Tree Sparrows foraging on the road in front of me.
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. The next two species are the Southern Grey Shrike and the Tawny Pipit , also characteristic for this habitat type.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!)
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