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JANUARY 18, 2015

However, the European or Western Swamphen (and boy, do I wish they find a nicer name once the split is accepted) is entirely confined to a small area of the WP, as it currently ranges very patchily from NW Africa and Spain to the Italian island of Sardinia. ” Birds Europe Purple Swamphen rails Spain' Pay heed to the warning.

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JUNE 15, 2012

So, yes, it was Spain. Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. These goods, purchased with Mexican silver, would then be transported overland through Mexico City, and shipped from Veracruz to Spain. And my hosts, God bless them, seemed eager to make that happen.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Instead of wintering in Africa and breeding in Europe, growing numbers of the birds now appear to be staying put in Spain and Portugal. The paper, published in the journal Movement Ecology , describes a striking change in White Storks’ migratory behavior. Makes sense—why drive for take-out when you’ve got a permanent dine-in option?).

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MARCH 29, 2019

Following the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in Portugal and Spain after Islamic conquest in the 8 th century, falconry would only became a more firmly fixed Iberian tradition in the hands of the Umayyad rulers of Al-Andalus. A falconry scene from the Severa Bible, a Sephardic bible from early 14th-century Spain.

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JULY 10, 2019

By the time this post is published, I will be on a short trip to Spain, though not principally for birding purposes. Being of the Tyrant-Flycatcher family, kingbirds are simply called Tiranos, or Tyrants, in Mexico. So I decided to make it easy on myself, and follow up on the whole name theme we did a couple of weeks ago. José María!

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MARCH 21, 2009

I come from a Portuguese family and I have no problem dumping on the Portuguese. The shooting occurred sometime between 21 and 23 February in the Vale do Guadiana Natural Park, close to the country's south-eastern border with Spain. This makes me angry. It has nothing to do with poverty, just stupidity. March 2009.

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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. As we move from Spain towards the east however, it starts getting interesting as soon as we reach Italy. And do they ever try so hard.

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JUNE 22, 2012

In fact, wagtails do not so much wag their tails as bob their butts, but bobbutts would be a really weird name for a family of birds. Even if you’ve never seen one, you can probably guess one of the instantly-notable behavioral traits of this group. Maybe no weirder than goatsuckers, though.) Charming, no?

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MARCH 15, 2024

If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. However, in Southern Spain a small number of birds are resident. Last month in Andalucia I saw only males.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. According to the winemakers there, hoopoes (a summertime breeder in Spain) are commonly encountered along the paths through the vineyard.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birds and Us starts with Birkhead’s visit to Cueva del Tajo de las Figuras, located in Andalusia, Spain and the Neolithic bird paintings on its walls. ’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

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JANUARY 15, 2013

The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. The Tramuntanas – Spain. Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Participating teams include the E-Birders from Cornell University, the Tigrisomas from Louisiana State University, the Forest Falcons from Great Britain, the Zululanders from South Africa, Team Tramuntana from Spain, and the Ararajubas from Brazil. Photo: Alex Duran.

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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. The virus was also found in Spanish mosquitoes in 2006, but an outbreak in Spain’s avifauna has not occurred (yet – or wasn’t noticed). I honestly did. Sickening!

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

So I was excited to finally get to take a trip to Spain and the Middle East that we had originally planned… for the ill-fated month of March, 2020. I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

I had a work trip to southern Spain earlier this month. But, amazingly, not all the “House Sparrows” I saw were House Sparrows ; a large group in Algeciras, in southern Spain, were Spanish Sparrows , and a smaller group in Madrid were European Tree Sparrows. (In The rush returns, and now we know enough to appreciate it!

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

Our relatively-recent trip to Spain and the Middle East was, as expected, a great opportunity to see new birds. In the end, it gave me 44 lifers: 10 from Turkey and 8 from Jordan, which I had not visited before, and 26 from Spain, which I had visited previously, but in which we spent much more time.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2023

First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. Then we threw together a semi-planned family-related trip to the States in early December. I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine. But my wife’s and my lives have been rather chaotic of late.

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JULY 1, 2014

Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. The first, The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families , tells the story of Dr. Gordon Sato’s mangrove tree-planting project, which transformed the African village of Hargigo.

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Paul’s family noticed that whenever he was about to have an attack, Tinker would get agitated. Shirley and Jenny: Remembering Friends.

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JUNE 10, 2012

I am heading towards the end of a two week family break in Andalusia, Spain as I write this and last week we jumped in the hire car and headed to a Spanish Town called Ronda for a day trip. There is beauty in these places but sometimes I have to look hard to find it.

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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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JULY 26, 2019

It may have arisen as a domestic replacement for orujo , a pomace brandy also imported from Spain (pomace being the solid portion of grape must – that is, the skins, seeds, and stems – left over from winemaking after the juice is extracted). The Spanish called (and still do) these liquors aguardiente (literally, “burning water”).

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 121

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. Luckily I wasn’t affected too severely by the current pandemic: I lost neither life nor family members to Covid, only my job which was replaced the same day I lost it. A non-bird Best Bird of the Year?

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

It starts as follows: “Historical variations (1966–2016) in the exposure to inorganic elements in raptors of South West Spain have been little studied.” Family ties are important. It is like the old sheepshagger joke … Searching for papers on the Common Kestrel , one abstract immediately caught my attention.

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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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JUNE 15, 2011

Another native bird that quickly showed itself to me in the capital was the Polynesian Triller , a member of the cuckoo-shrike family. A cheap holiday looking for the sun didn’t mean I was going to leave the binoculars at home, however.

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