10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
On the reptile front however, we were rewarded with with a large number of common wall lizards that saw the warm sun as a rare opportunity to sunbathe on the stone walls along the paths through the vineyard. On the way, we saw a Peregrine Falcon , Common Buzzard , Eurasian Nuthatch , and the other typical birds of the region.
Critter News
AUGUST 19, 2008
Amy, a German shepherd, and Uno, a Labrador retriever, have joined the team at {Frankfurt,} one of Europe's busiest airports — the first two dogs in Germany trained to sniff out live animals, plants or derivatives or remains of them. Tags: wildlife trafficking smuggling Germany. Interesting. That's huge.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
And for those of you who are completely bird-centric, herps has less to do with diseases and more to do with reptiles and amphibians (and in a way, are not all birders technically herpers too?). Either that or having family friends in Germany. First hand birder knowledge of Germany, and in English! They are just too cool.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. But you haven’t come here to read my writing about mammals or reptiles, so, yeah, there are also lots of birds. Red Lechwe. In particular, there are lots of waterbirds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
So, I welcomed the opportunity to read and review Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds , by John Pickrell, published in the United States by Columbia University Press. The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861. Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2011
During the course of a business trip to western Kazakhstan in early April I flew from Germany to Aqtau, right at the coast of the Caspian Sea. The job assignment was to head inland the following day for a week of monitoring birds and reptiles, which goes to show just how hard some of us have to work for their dime. Complicated stuff.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2011
Occasionally a chick will fall and be released back into the food chain by the alligators, but on the whole, the birds get a good deal providing that they build their nests beyond the jumping capability (as much as 5 feet as demonstrated in the “Jumperoo Show&# ) of the reptiles.
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