10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. At least one birder will now likely grab his war hammer and check flight availabilities from New York to Frankfurt as well as average prison sentences in Germany for first degree murder. Here in Germany, we have them. Yes, some birders may frown at this statement.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Sure, occasionally a bird has given me problems, like Black-backed Woodpeckers back in 2007 when I was doing an alleged Big Year in New York State, but not seeing a bird for a single year does not make it a nemesis. But Black Woodpecker ? Yet, here I am, back from Austria, minus one Black Woodpecker sighting. What happened?
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2020
Mandarin Ducks, Munich, Germany. Sure, it is an introduced species in Germany. Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Mexico has a good number of greenish or rusty Woodpeckers. All my Woodpeckers have been among the black and white jobs with small patches of red, orange, or yellow. I think all Swifts are cool.
10,000 Birds
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2013
They were once a widespread and diverse group, however, with many fossils known from what are now North America and Europe. ’s “land bird clade,” with passerines, parrots, falcons, woodpeckers, the Coraciiformes (kingfishers, hornbills, bee-eaters, etc.), But to what other birds are mousebirds related?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. Here in Germany, where garbage is a costly thing to get rid of, it’s big “sleek and white-collar&# business. And definitely take a look at gulls.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Originally from India and the vicinity, it is believed that they had already undergone two major expansions – through Asia Minor in the 1600s, and then across Europe in the 1900s – when they first appeared in North America. They are very common in Central Asia, which is very roughly comparable to the prairies.
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