10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2015
In all, the duo compared DNA from 77 redpolls, including specimens from museums around the world, from the Museum of Vertebrates at Cornell University to the Natural History Museum of Geneva in Switzerland. Furthermore, another redpoll species found in Europe—the Lesser Redpoll—also had extremely similar DNA sequences.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2019
This month we were able to go to Europe again, for our first real vacation in a few years. We stayed with friends in the tiny French town of Cessy, and there I saw my second European woodpecker species, the handsome Great Spotted Woodpecker. One sang very insistently outside our lodgings in Interlaken, Switzerland.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2015
Some lovely and touristy cities of Western Europe are justly proud of their cathedral Peregrines (Barcelona, Norwich, Bristol), even London (which has its charms, but is far from lovely) – why not Belgrade (isn’t proud, I mean)? Conservation Peregrine Falcon poisoning Serbia Switzerland' One Feral Pigeon. A Great Tit. v=8kKoL3sdbaQ.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
In its natural old-world range, the House Sparrow offers an interesting identification challenge and has vagrant potential since it is a polytypic species with a highly complex taxonomy. The genus Passer has several well-recognized and recognizable species in Europe, and still holds several enigmas.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
This thrush is extremely common in urban and suburban Germany and one of the most conspicuous bird species here, comparable to the American Robin in North America. Because this was such a common species, we lacked quantitative data to be certain that this lack was an actual “situation” and not just the ordinary seasonal variation.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2012
Rather, it could be considered the aythyian background noise against which to discern the other, more appreciated species. It has been seen near Luzern (85 km away) in Switzerland, so it is not a very local bird at all. Over much of North America, the Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis is more than just common.
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