10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
Steve Dudley, a bird guide and author of the Lesvos birding guide, once told me: “Greece is THE premier birding location in Europe for me [and for yours truly as well]. You can get to Athens from pretty much anywhere, and from Athens, you can access anywhere else in Greece easily enough by plane, ferry, or car. What’s not to love!”
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. For more information, I strongly recommend Birdwatching in Northern Greece, the third edition of which was published recently.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
The aquarium said it hoped Homer would help raise awareness about the plight of his species. The Archelon rescue centre in Greece previously looking after Homer believes this is what happened to him. Fishermen in Greece deliberately blinding turtles? Fishermen in Greece deliberately blinding turtles?
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. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2018
I observed my first GS eagles in India some 8 years ago, then the first for Europe in Greece only last December , and finally I have them in my home country list. But through binoculars I noticed small raised crests and supercilia joining on hindneck – Woodlarks !
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2015
And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? Greece (346 / 411 – just to give you a clue, the Greek-published checklist I have has 449 species). And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International. Namibia (595 / 690). The Neotropics. Costa Rica (857 / 903).
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