10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2013
Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Petersburg, Russia. Immediately I began looking for new species, spotting right away a dark, crow-like bird with a grey mantle and belly. It flew right over to get a closer look. Trips Europe Russia'
Critter News
DECEMBER 21, 2011
But I'm not exactly sure why RUSSIA would ban them. Apparently, some claim about 90 percent of Canadian sales are to Russia. Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry. Great news!
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Looks like a scaup of some sort, but it’s not quite right My bird certainly had the peaked crown characteristic of a Lesser Scaup; the feathers on its head looked black at a distance, while closer inspection revealed a purple sheen. Lesser Scaup has only a slight black tip to the beak, while this bird had a clear black band.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2013
Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2011
The temperatures may not be conducive to shorts and T-shirt but there is still some great early winter birding to be had in Britain right now. Anyone thinking that it’s time to slow down needs to think again. The current influx has almost exclusively involved European breeding birds, probably due to weather conditions in mid-November.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2023
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. The calls of the Giant Laughingthrush are quite common both somewhat below the Balangshan peak area and at the tunnel area that will be described in a future post.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South America (1994), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Europe & Russia (2000) and Central America & the Caribbean (2001). I was always curious, but never had a chance to study any of them.
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