10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. In Europe, Lesser Kestrels are birds of the Mediterranean zone, nesting mainly in Spain and Portugal, southern France, Sardinia, the Balkans and parts of Greece.

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Falcons Spain Europe 2012 202

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

On my last trip to Greece, I carried and studied this book, hoping for the Audouin’s Gull (no such luck yet, actually I saw very few gulls). From my experience, the gulling season is definitively winter. My first impression is that the book is somewhat large and heavy (2.05 pounds, and 6.7 The colder – the better. I hate the cold.

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Europe Africa Greece Groups 237

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

This September I found myself on a bear tracking tour organised by Natural Greece in the prime bear habitat of the Pindos range – the southernmost bear country in Europe, heading for the 2,520 m / 8,270 ft high Gramos Mountain along the border with Albania. inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 270

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece. These cats are quite numerous around Lake Kerkini in Northern Greece, and I’ve encountered them there several times, including the individual above that allowed itself to be photographed.

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Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. I was placed one year with a photograph of little egrets, taken at Kerkini in Greece, while the following year I won the class with a shot of Wryneck, photographed in an orchard in Poland ( above ).

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Estonia Poland India Pelicans 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted. Natural Greece: “Empathy is important too. Very simply – a combination of passion, patience, knowledge and experience! Language skills too.”.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 210

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JANUARY 3, 2019

The year 2018 started with the rare Lesser White-fronted Goose , closely followed by Red-breasted Goose , Red-crested Pochard and Greater Flamingo , all at the incredible Lake Kerkini National Park in northern Greece: “Seeing a parked 4×4 and a national park biologist Kostas Papadopoulos scoping the flats… What is he looking at?

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2018 Serbia Falcons Greece 118

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

I bought my first 20 years ago from some Russian on the seashore in Greece, but have not used it much because of rather dark images (I even took it to India with me – and didn’t use it even once). How to describe the experience in one word? And this year I carried it to Greece twice, both by plane and by car. in which way?

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Greece Battery Experience Experiments 168

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Yet, going through the pages of a book is an irreplaceable experience. Cover photo: birding Greece. An app comes handy to check the call of this, or a song of that species, and I must admit, with larger font I do not need my reading glasses. How about a notebook vs. eBird, Merlin or iNaturalist? Inset: birding Costa Rica.

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Birds Costa Rica Greece Battery 140

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AUGUST 20, 2015

So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. Greece (346 / 411 – just to give you a clue, the Greek-published checklist I have has 449 species). While I do enjoy the first snow of the season, the second snow is a different matter. As is every one after it. The Neotropics.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Those large international agencies use reputable local ground agents, and in my experience this creates a safety cocoon around the travellers. Birding agencies seem to stick to their announced plans and no news of cancelled tours had reached the bird tourism market.

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Sri Lanka Ghana Uganda Eagles 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2017

A few years back, I birded northern Greece with a couple from Namibia. Worried that such experience might traumatise young Spongebob, I held the paddle as an obstacle, pointed at the angry bird. Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm….

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Birds Namibia Greece Feral 125

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APRIL 2, 2016

Sharing those special birds with so many like-minded people of all ages may have been the most magical experience on race day. This year’s recipient was the Hellenic Ornithological Society (HOS) in Greece. Waiting for the sandgrouse. I can’t think of any low points from my time in Eilat, Israel.

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