10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter.

Burma 214

Burma India Birds Indonesia 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. But even without huge herds of elephants large game is defiantly the major draw for most people on the cruise. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.

Botswana 162

Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

The Pigeon has spawned an empire of books, DVDs, plush toys, games, and musical theater. Another great example of a little bird book is, yes, Little Bird , written by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine, recently brought over from Switzerland and translated by Enchanted Lion Books.

Birds 223

Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

David Tomlinson If you are American then you will no doubt know Perdix perdix as the Gray Partridge , an introduced game bird now widespread on the prairies of Canada and the northern states of the USA. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.

Hungary 167

Hungary Eggs Fox India 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Birders there had to invent games to make seeing a scaup interesting: Because of all the places it could have called its winter home, it chose the Rhine separating Huningue and Weil am Rhein, the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany. The other post is Jochen’s tale of trying to find a Lesser Scaup in Europe.

Ducks 213

Ducks New Zealand France Germany 213