10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2020
For much of its history, Portugal has sat secluded at what was long considered the very end of the known world — at least from a Western point of view. But like Spain, its only neighbor on the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal is cut off from the rest of Europe by the steep, natural border formed by the Pyrenees.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2021
Of the thirty or so members of the family Icteridae that go by the name “oriole” on the western side of the Atlantic Ocean, several species are partial enough to fruit that they even visit feeders that offer it as jelly, as the sugar-preserved form usually reserved for human consumption is known.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2019
After three visits to southern Italy, followed by a lone excursion to Belgium, we’ll head back south to end our month-long “Grand Tour” of falconry-themed wine and ales in Portugal. Portugal has a long history of both falconry and winemaking. Portugal was a source of less poetic, practical information on falconry, as well.
Reddit Animals
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
I was out to dinner with my husband and the question just popped into my head- every human civilization has independently developed religions and I was just wondering everything we don’t know about the animal world as we can’t communicate with them. My husband thought this was an absurd thought.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
Until 2007 the British Ornithologists’ Union lumped it with the Herring Gull , perhaps the classic “sea gull” of human contempt. Cabo da Roca in Portugal is actually slightly farther west, but at the time accurate measurements were not much on people’s minds.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2014
Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2022
Oh, and maybe humans need to be a bit less destructive to your habitat, too. In Southern Portugal, Little Ringed Plovers nest either along natural streams or near agricultural ponds. No wonder that Oriental Pratincoles generally encourage humans to eat more beef. Asian Dowitchers at Nanhui on July 26, 2022: all losers?
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