10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2012
We are back from our ten-day family vacation to Berlin and Prague and it was awesome. But this is a bird blog so I will stick to the birds here and simply share five things that I learned while birding in Germany or, to be more exact, while birding in Berlin. Mandarin Ducks are countable in Germany. Nothing, that’s what!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
But I have been sick with different kinds and forms of cold since the beginning of December with no interruption, and so has my entire family. That is very cold for the south of Germany. Okay, I meant to write an entertaining post. I honestly did.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 23, 2020
I feel that like most bird families (with the obvious exception of pheasants), buntings are somewhat underrated. The Little Bunting – as the name suggests – is probably the cutest of the family. I am particularly fond of Tristam`s Bunting – maybe the smartest-looking of the family. In other words, they are my kind of birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
T he European Green Woodpecker (Visselhoevede, Germany) is closely related to the Grey-headed Woodpecker, but less demanding in terms of its habitat ( source ). The pink lipstick shape on the face of the bird counterintuitively indicates that this is a male. Kind of like a diesel version.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. Things get complicated – and then, completely out of hand — when Gabe’s new inamorata is introduced to his family.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2023
Here goes: Paradise Flycatchers are a genus in the broader (and rather large) family of Monarchidae. Of course, for countries with mostly moderate climates such as the US, China, Japan, or Germany, it is always easier to claim that the winter range is the problem (i.e., not their own).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2015
Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel. As someone already pointed out on the blog that is the sole reason you switch on to the Internet in the morning, the Eurasian Red Squirrel is more arboreal and much more agile than the vast majority of its North American family members.
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