10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2024
Cyprus Wheatears are the easiest to find of the three endemic birds that occur on Cyprus Black Francolins once bred in Portugal, Spain and Italy, all countries from which this handsome little game bird has long been lost. Despite its speed, the Swift didn’t stand a chance, for these falcons are deadly hunters.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2019
After three visits to southern Italy, followed by a lone excursion to Belgium, we’ll head back south to end our month-long “Grand Tour” of falconry-themed wine and ales in Portugal. A falconer and his bird from the Mosaico de Cavaleiro in Mértola, possibly the oldest depiction of falconry in Iberia.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
This early weathercock once graced the church of Santi Faustino e Giovita in Brescia, Italy, but now resides at the Museo di Santa Giulia in the same city. The Gallo di Ramperto, the oldest extant weathervane in the world in the shape of a rooster, dating to the ninth century CE. on The Albany Academy by architect Marcus T.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2019
The Gyrfalcon ( Falco rusticolus ), the largest falcon in the world, is as sought after by falconers as it is by birders – and for many of the same reasons: namely, the rarity with which these imposing raptors of the Arctic visit us residing in more temperate climes.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2012
Along with her team (including her lover Jenny Sparks, the living Spirit of the Twentieth Century) she destroyed an alternate Italy to prevent the invasion of her world and took over the United States in order to run it better than Congress. This is not comic heroism as you remember it.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
A few weeks from now (it was early April), Eleonora’s Falcons will become a possibility, too, once they return from Madagascar. Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. We are looking for shags and shearwaters, as well as some rarer gulls that didn’t bother to show up.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2015
It even entices those of us who seriously dig the fromage (did I ever tell you about the amazing, heavenly provolone I ate at a rest stop somewhere in Italy? Oh, but this is a birding blog, sorry.). But, you won’t find any dairy cows at Medio Queso. Ruddy-breasted Seedeaters are also common at Medio Queso.
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