10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2024
Memorable encounters with Mammals Part II It’s generally reckoned that there are more deer in Britain today than there were in the Middle Ages, a fact that is almost certainly true. It’s a common mammal in the countryside around my home, and I see them frequently. Rather more are killed in collisions with cars.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
Memorable encounters with Mammals: Part I Most birdwatchers enjoy seeing mammals, but the trouble with mammals is that they tend to be much more challenging to see than birds. On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France. Unfortunately, some mammals regularly disturb this order with their photobombing. stresses the importance of order.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2022
Gazetted as the “nature monument” in 2013, one of the few remaining – Bojcinska Forest by the village of Progar covers 670 ha / 1650 ac, with around 108 bird species and some 60 species of mammals. And that is where Q. and I were heading this morning. We had a Common Cuckoo and several Northern Lapwings by the roadside.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2024
In Europe, Lesser Kestrels are birds of the Mediterranean zone, nesting mainly in Spain and Portugal, southern France, Sardinia, the Balkans and parts of Greece. The answer is likely to be a higher percentage of small mammals and birds than they take in the summer.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2021
In France, the proverb is “ Quand il pleut à la Saint-Médard, il pleut quarante jours plus tard ” which is more or less equivalent to the traditional English saying: St Swithin’s day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain. The earliest parts of the church date to the Anglo-Saxon era. Redouté, 7 vols. 1800 – 1819).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
In parts of Western Europe, it is considered to be “exotic” because it has been introduced, possibly by anglers, in lakes and rivers in France and the Iberian Peninsula. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well. It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species.
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