10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

I and my family will endeavor to stay calm on the road to central Ohio, where we’ll be spending the weekend with more family. Corey will remain local, birding in Queens and rooting for France. So, if you’re on the road this weekend, stay calm, have fun, and don’t drive like an idiot! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

This corner of southwest France is best known for its rich, dark reds, as well as Sauternes, the sweet, white wine produced from grapes affected by noble rot. The estate of Château de Colombe is in the village of Sainte-Colombe, a name it shares with many other places throughout France.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2019

I’m traveling this holiday weekend both to visit family and – I hope – to work on Pennsylvania state list, so I’m a bit short on time for a proper story on this week’s wine. And for wine fans, it means drinking up the last of the summer’s rose before chillier autumn weather arrives and we move on to heartier selections.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species.

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Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Take the fossil horse Hipparion , found in France and Florida. Clearly this needed explaining, and the explanation that the geologists settled on was that a land bridge has risen up between Florida and France. Indeed it was part of that family. How did it end up in those two places and nowhere else?

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Horses France North America Fiji 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. (I Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do.

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Birds LACS France Japan 228

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Called home to the Oregon Coast to operate the family motel, in her free time she leads Tufted Puffin walks and escapes to guide at birding festivals and explore the world as often as possible. You better have CFA (West African Francs). And then driving in Senegal?

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Senegal South Dakota Gambia Birds 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

And while most of these introduction attempts failed, the species has now become firmly established as a “countable” species in several areas of France and Italy, and even Spain so far as I was able to find out. However, all those widely scattered populations are – still?

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Italy Europe France Family 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2020

A pair of Pestvogelen : Bohemian Waxwings ( Bombycilla garrulus ) from Nederlandsche vogelen (“ Dutch Birds” ) by naturalist and illustrator Cornelius Nozeman (1720-1786) and Christiaan Andreas Sepp (1700-1775) and Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) of the famous Amsterdam publishing family.

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Farming New York Humane Europe 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What does it mean that a hummingbird fossil was found in southeastern France? The answers involve phylogenies, evolutionary family trees, derived from DNA studies combined with fossil records, and geological concepts of how the continents and oceans were formed from super land masses. 70) is adorable as well as educational.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

And as much as I’ve deplored the tendency to anthropomorphise the family lives of birds , this is one instance where I have to believe it’s worked solidly to avian advantage: seeing the birds tending their nests day in and day out tends to build up warm feelings. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

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Spain Europe Industry Rodents 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: A Partridge in a Pear Tree The partridge, a member of the pheasant family, has been a traditional game bird in England for centuries. This gift is no doubt one of fancy domesticated chickens ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) from France, cooked perhaps in the Parisian style.

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Turtles 2004 United Kingdom Geese 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2016

He was the most loving father you could wish for and life will never be the same for any of us now, but we treasure all of the time we spent together and especially when we could all be together at the family home for a few days that one last time. Trévaly, TURBALLE (LA), Loire-Atlantique, France. 10-Aug-07.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

I found this out last year, on a trip to France with my daughter Sarah. I did notice that many French dragonflies depicted on the Internet (at least those from northern and central France) are also found in Great Britain. There are many more British species that resemble ours, but belong to different subfamilies or even families.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. They were there, but I couldn’t see them.

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Birds DC Sparrows Canada 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. And, it is a guide based on scholarship as well as field work (author Reeber has monitored the birds of the Lac of Grand-Lieu, France, for the National Society for Nature Protection (SNPN) since 1994). So much simpler than pinning down those warblers!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. Some people, one or two of my family members included, hate Canada Geese with a passion that rivals their hatred for mosquitoes (if you’re from Maine, or New England at all, you know that hatred runs deep). Weather is weird.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 192

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

It’s like we are already familiar with them and need to see them in life to sort of “come home” At least that’s how I felt when I got my lifer Hoopoe in southern France, when I saw the pink underparts of my first bullfinch in conifers at the edge of the French Alps.

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship. Imagine you study history. That’s what Archaeopteryx is. In fact, you have to get downright cladistic.

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 247

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Birders from Western Europe will surely note, upon seeing Black-eared Wheatear here, the difference between this Eastern race and the Western race that they may have seen in Spain or France. Dan is an active member of BirdLife Cyprus and goes birding whenever his career and family allow.

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Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

1917 New Witness 28 June 202/1 It is continually stated that Maternity Clinics and Infant Welfare Centres have met with the greatest success in France. 5/1 The scandal of the ‘welfare hotels’ [in New York] where the city places homeless families has been simmering for many weeks. welfare hotel U.S., welfare roll N. -Oct.

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Project Treadstone Welfare Trap Neuter Return Cats 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The Introduction says there should be another visual index of representative species from each family on the inside front cover (similar to the Eastern Birds guide), but the inside front cover of my edition is blank. It reminds me of the first time I saw the bird in Tours, France in 2012.

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Ireland 2013 Breeders United Kingdom 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Hunters pay for the regulatory agency that stops poaching.

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