10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I first visited Kerkini and this bird-rich region of northern Greece 15 years ago, and have been returning regularly ever since. One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Such an abundance of wildfowl attracts Peregrines.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Buffalo 198

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Without further ado, here are our Best Birds of the Year for 2015… Jochen makes us all jealous with a bird that most of us would kill to see. Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia – small, non-descript and even harder to spot – at the Kerkini Lake in Greece in April: We were hastily getting out of the van and, at the same time, it took N. –

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 180