10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2015
In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively). Which costed me a lifer.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Olson who in 1986 published a paper describing his experience finding, reading, and researching Bloxam’s original notes. Well, obvious if you had access to both the specimen, Bloxam’s notes, and the drawing, which most people did not have. You can see a PDF of that paper here. (I I relied upon it heavily for this article.).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).
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