10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge of extinction. Leading scientists, conservationists and aviculturalists from Europe and South-east Asia met at Walsrode in Germany recently to formulate a rescue plan.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

My childhood in the 1970s and 1980s was of course shaped by family, friends, playmobil ( very popular in Germany back then), and school but also to a certain extend by the Cold War. As a kid I still understood little of world politics, but I understood very well that all the countries behind the Iron Curtain were off-limits to me.

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Europe Birds Kazakhstan Russia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2022

For some reason that I do not quite understand myself – given that I really rather dislike children and am not too positive about the rest of humanity either – I recently put up a little display of bird photos inside my Shanghai compound, which I share (as the only foreigner) with about 1700 Chinese.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

To us on the traditional side of the Atlantic, they’ll always belong to the family Iznogoudae , the birds who want to become warblers instead of the warblers. Birders in the Americas may not be aware of it, but from the higher ground of a European perspective the American “warblers” are intensely overrated.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 210

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

A Carolina Parakeet mounted in a museum in Germany Fritz Geller-Grimm. Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here. The population is not directly dependent on human support.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2012

Sure, the old runways and service roads are still there but the areas between them are not mowed very often, some of the paved areas have been allowed to go completely wild, and nature, as always, finds its way back in as soon as humanity turns its back. It was one of the busiest airports in the 1930s, is home to a building 1.2

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

Being of a much purer mind than most male humans, I cannot find anything amusing about the name of the Japanese Tit. Large Woodshrikes are neither members of the shrike family, nor large (MacKinnon: “smallish grey and white”), nor made of wood. Swinhoe’s White-eyes can sometimes even be found in my Shanghai compound.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. When he isn’t traveling the world in search of birds, art, and excitement, Rick Wright lives in northern New Jersey with his family, Alison Beringer and Avril Huang, and their black lab puppy, Quetzal.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I could immediately tell them it was an Egyptian Goose – an invasive species in Germany but not at Kruger. Retz’s Helmetshrike is one of the 8 helmetshrikes within the larger family of Vangidae – apparently, a family that evolved from a single Madagascar-based species.

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. When one thinks of ecotourism here and how it changed lives, it should be known that the locals were leaving the region, in 1960s to the USA, but in the last ten years, after the World Economic Crisis, mostly to Germany.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of these pages is dedicated to the harm and benefit the species has for humans, while a full page is dedicated to instructions on how to hunt the bird: The translation of the first sentence indicates the general tone: “They are not very shy, and easy to shoot.” This individual first did not fully comply.

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Birds Research Science Europe 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

In somewhat dubious English, the abstract of one paper on this species by Chinese authors states that “ Pycnonotus sinens has got used to the city life and become a kind of city bird that are closely associated with human” (of course, my Chinese – spoken only anyway – is far worse than this English).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Particularly the latter – Nabang – would in the past easily have merited its own post, but recent developments there that now make the place a bit like the former border between West and East Germany changed that. Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. But not to bees. Reluctantly back to birds.

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