10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2024

Jacob suggested the Wagbachniederung, a well-known wetland that is particularly popular amongst photographers for being one of the few locations in Germany where Purple Herons breed.

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Squirrels South Africa Germany Ducks 215

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APRIL 6, 2024

As South Germany always has different birds on offer to the area around Bonn, I had to take my camera with me. I spent a weekend in Munich recently to visit my girlfriend and my brother. While I usually only take my binoculars on trips where birding is not really a part but I just want to make sure.

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Birds Germany Ducks Woodpeckers 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

For those still reading on after this introduction, this is about Barn Owls I have seen in Germany in summer 2018 and winter 2019 – rural Northern Germany, to be more specific. In December 2019, I found a roosting barn owl on my last day in Germany. More owl photos here.

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Owls Barn Owls Germany 2018 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Well, this post is more specific than that – it is about the birds of Fliederweg 7, 27374 Visselhövede, Germany. Finally, this being Germany, we also have birds that look (at least a little bit) like Hitler. Birds of a specific place with an unpronounceable name that you have never heard of? European Greenfinch. House Sparrow.

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Germany Neglecting Birds Blackbirds 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2024

On the one hand, they are very easy to see in Germany, swimming in public parks or teaching pensioners how to eat bread. To be honest, I never cared too much for swans. On the other hand, their white color and their considerable size made me see them as somewhat arrogant birds – the white Golf convertible of the bird world.

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China Iceland Whales Whaling 228

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JULY 30, 2021

Nope, definitely not one of those… The classification of beer styles can be a pretty thorny issue in its own right, and I suspect Helles requires some explanation to most casual drinkers outside of Germany. Helles is a pale German lager, particularly popular in Bavaria but also in neighboring Franconia and Baden-Württemberg.

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Germany New York Bears Rights 264

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JUNE 1, 2023

Now, try to imagine Germany having Joseph Goebbels as a Chancellor around the year 1970, more than quarter of a century after WWII – unimaginable, isn’t it? Why should something so unimaginable in Germany be possible in Serbia? He started his political career as Slobodan Milosevic’s Minister of Propaganda. Protest indeed!

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Protest Protesting Protesters Germany 193

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

submitted by /u/HotHorst [link] [comments].

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Germany Animal 52

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

T he European Green Woodpecker (Visselhoevede, Germany) is closely related to the Grey-headed Woodpecker, but less demanding in terms of its habitat ( source ). The pink lipstick shape on the face of the bird counterintuitively indicates that this is a male. Kind of like a diesel version.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! Ospreys have shown a remarkable recovery in Germany. Four stars!!), or from Coreys small series on national birds is left for you to decide.

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Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 170

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MARCH 22, 2024

In the late 80s I was invited by Zeiss to go to Wetzlar in Germany to see the company’s binoculars being manufactured, an invitation that was too good to refuse. I was one of a small group of journalists, each of whom was presented with the latest Dialyt 10×40 inscribed with our initials.

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Austria Factory Branding Germany 217

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MAY 31, 2015

Germany is currently experiencing something for which the English have no nice expression. The specificities of languages … Anyway, so Germany this year is essentially filled with mice, like the one shown here, which – so far as I know – is a vole where you come from. You’re not a vole or a gerbil.

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Fox Rodents Gophers Germany 164

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APRIL 2, 2017

In Germany for example, they are breeding in practically every hilly or mountainous region south of the North German Plain and are not really rare if they occur in a certain region. However, dippers here in Germany aren’t too fussy about their habitats and will readily utilize human-made secondary rapids and rocks. Crazy, I know.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

submitted by /u/louisenkind [link] [comments]

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Germany Animal 52

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

In fact – and I am not making this up – I was very upset on my first visit to the Great Bustards in Germany when glancing with naked eyes over the meadows, I noticed a few large white pieces of plastic garbage that the wind had apparently blown into the nature reserve and I angrily thought that someone really should go remove them.

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 9, 2021

submitted by /u/HotHorst [link] [comments].

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Met this guy during my evening run in Cologne, Germany. Is it a marten? submitted by /u/smiil2 [link] [comments]

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Germany Animal 52

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2019

Barn Swallows are pretty much anywhere in the world (I just saw them back in Germany). During my last trip to Germany, several people pointed out locations of Common Kingfisher. So, no, I did not spend time searching for it in Germany. So why shouldn’t they be in Shanghai, at least in summer?

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Germany Cattle Blackbirds Birds 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

However, one of the little sweet candies Germany still enjoys today from its own disastrous colonial past is the Common Guillemot, or Common Murre. Germany has only one high seas island it calls its own, the mighty (from a birding perspective) island of Heligoland. km²) in the German Bight, approximately 70 km off the coast of Germany.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

A wet Blackcap (Visselhoevede, Germany). So, here’s a collection of wet birds. A wet Grey-eyed Bulbul (Xishuangbanna, China). A wet African Pygmy Kingfisher (Mkuze, South Africa). A wet Daurian Redstart (Shennongjia, China). Wet Orange-bellied Leafbird s (Tengchong, China). A wet Moustached Laughingthrush (Tengchong, China).

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South Africa China Africa Birds 185

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Birding activities in Germany in January (generated with ornitho.de ). Tundra Bean Goose, Anser serrirostris – Sylt and Westcoast SH, Germany – 01 Jan. Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus – Heidelberg/Leimen BW, Germany – 02 Jan. Great Tit, Parus major – Heidelberg/Leimen BW, Germany – 04 Jan.

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MAY 20, 2023

Found in middle Germany by some kids. Any idea from Wich animal this is? submitted by /u/schnick3rs [link] [comments]

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Germany Animal 52

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

Now, I normally do not take photos of tanks (I did do alternative service in Germany rather than serve the mandatory time in the army), but I made an exception for this one. A bit lower, the landscape has a distinct desert feeling to it … … interrupted only by the areas very close to the Kabul river.

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Afghanistan Birds Goats Transported 204

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AUGUST 21, 2016

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s most attractive and desired bird species: the Great Bustard Otis tarda. Now that I might have wetted your appetite, here’s where and how to find them in Germany: 1.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2020

Blue Tit (Visselhoevede, Germany, Jul 2018). Black-tailed Godwit (Nanhui, China, May 2020). Black-throated Tit (Tianmushan, China, Jun 2019). Hiking up a tree. Black-winged Stilt (Nanhui, China, May 2019). Almost abstract bird patterns. “You`re so juvenile!” ” Budgerigar (Ayers Rock, Australia, Dec 2016).

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South Africa 2018 2019 China 220

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Here in Germany, we don’t wish we had. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. Because we never have had.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 251

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2022

Still, this Carrion Crow in Munich, Germany, had that Blackbird beat: It came so close to me that it did not fit in the camera’s frame. But they are extremely common up in Baja California and, to judge from this bird in Ensenada, exceedingly trusting — it barely fit in the camera’s frame.

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Blackbirds Germany Sparrows Adoptable 196

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FEBRUARY 15, 2015

And if months of overcast days are what climate change has in store for Germany, I’ll volunteer for the first manned Mars mission that doesn’t include a return ticket. Birds chickadees and tits finches Germany waterfowl weather winter' Still, this winter is pain. Final shapes of grey tally = 50!

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Germany Feral Ducks Game 177

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Mandarin Ducks, Munich, Germany. Sure, it is an introduced species in Germany. So my favorites for 2019 includes a good number of birds that are rather common elsewhere, but were firsts for me. Plus a few truly difficult species. And they aren’t nearly as famous as the vagrant/escaped Mandarin Duck of Central Park.

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Austria Spain 2019 Birds 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2020

I`ve seen three more buntings – one in Germany ( Yellowhammer ) and two in South Africa ( Cape Bunting, Golden-breasted Bunting ). And if you are willing to travel a bit further within China, you can see the Crested Bunting , which arguably has a bit more star quality …. Yellowhammer. Cape Bunting. Golden-breasted Bunting.

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South Africa China Germany Family 190

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JULY 24, 2016

The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can even be scarce regionally, but overall it is not a difficult bird to find in Germany so long as a cunning birder frequents reedy wetlands.

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Zoos Germany California Condor Lions 100

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Germany, Schwerin. Had this little Bat in my Apartment tonight on the Floor. I placed her/him without further inspection on a post on my balcony and hoped He/She flew away, but nope. She/He was still in the ground. I think my Cats didn't harmed him/her, but you never know. The bat is still alive but is pretty bad injured.

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Bats Animal Welfare Germany Welfare 52

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JULY 7, 2013

We, the people of Germany, have had enough of this nonsense. Birds Germany magpies weather' This may come as a surprise and it is sure to rock the stocks, yet it is an inevitable consequence of recent developments and a logic step to those familiar with European affairs: The Germans are preparing to leave the European Union.

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Algeria 2013 Germany Mali 148

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MARCH 15, 2015

Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel. Mammals Germany red squirrels squirrels' And the squirrel I will post about is indeed what it seems : a cute, little, ferocious, nest-predatory, butt-kicking, cuddly and adorable native critter of Europe, the Eurasian Red Squirrel.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2012

Maybe the proposition isn’t that simple, but you can vote to allocate $40,000 from National Geographic Germany to Fundación ProAves to support conservation of the practically extinct Fuertes’s Parrot.

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Parrots Pandas Rhinos Germany 188

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AUGUST 4, 2013

In Germany, it is a very polarizing species, as it is very common on the North Sea shore – where it breeds – but a scarce visitor to the rest of the country, making it a bird so fair and foul to a mixed group of birders as you’ll ever see. Birds Germany godwits shorebirds'

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