10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

She accompanies Luke on his Barn Owl counting, a heartening and optimistic chore now that British farmers have learned to prefer owls, as a pest control method, to strychnine, which kills rats but also the owls that feed on them.

Barn Owls 113

Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

Rather more are killed in collisions with cars. And there are still some mammals I’d really like to see, such as the Russian flying squirrel that can be found in Finland and Estonia, or the mysterious Pyrenean Desman, which looks like a shrew but is more closely related to the Mole. However, top of my wanted list is a European Lynx.

Fur 200

Fur Deer Boars Estonia 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard. At the time we were looking, without success, for White-backed Woodpeckers.

Fur 178

Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

Barnacle geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic, while the nearest wintering areas also lie along the northern coasts of Europe: the Netherlands and the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden). we will kill it!”, Here in Serbia, in the south of the continent, this species is a proper rarity.

Geese 141

Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 141

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Bramblings in Finland – though not actually being parasitized by cuckoos – nevertheless rejected the vast majority of non-matching eggs in a study – they thus seem well-prepared for a potential future cuckoo invasion. Maybe there is some justice in this world after all. The White-browed Thrush is not a lot more attractive.

Birds 200

Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 200