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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2012
And what a trip to Hungary it was! Before I get into the nitty-gritties of my awesome birding experiences in Hungary I thought I would just share a few of the shots that I got during the trip. If you ever get the chance to visit Hungary you should take it: you definitely won’t regret that choice. I’m baaack!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2012
I do try to experience and learn as much as I can on every trip and my week in Hungary was no exception. Rather than force you to go all the way to Hungary to learn on your own the five main lessons I learned I figured sharing them here on the blog would be worthwhile. Common House Martins have feathered legs and feet.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2012
We Americans, or at least this American, know little about Hungary. But this American did know enough that when Swarovski Optik offered a spot on a week-long trip to Hungary that I couldn’t possibly say no. Anyway, Hungary! Daisy, however, could have. That is all I want to say about that.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended by a parent outside of the wonderful Nomad Hotel in Hungary’s Bükk Hills. I hope she brings me more cherries and not a slimy slug. ••• My week-long trip to Hungary was a familiarity trip organized by the wonderful folks at Swarovski Optik.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2012
White-backed Woodpecker was one of the major target birds of the Bükk Hills portion of the trip to Hungary and though I would probably have preferred seeing what I now believe to be the mythical Black Woodpecker , the White-backed Woodpecker was a nice consolation prize. No one had access to my thought processes or to the previous footnote.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Komondorok have been bred as livestock guard dogs originating from Hungary, and when threatened they reveal sheer athletic muscularity and a deep, ferocious bark that is sure to scare anyone. To read Jaime’s full open letter to Zuckerberg (or anyone else contemplating these beautiful breeds) – click here.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
Gorman also leads bird tours in central and Eastern Europe and posts photos and updates on his work on his own website and, as I said before, Facebook.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2012
We, and by we I mean me and a gang of about ten other birders, found this youngster along the edge of Lake Tisza on the grounds of Tisza Balneum, a marvelous hotel where we had the good fortune to stay for two nights of the Hungary trip. source ) Those scoundrel Barred Warbler fathers!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
Having jumped around a bit while writing up my trip to Hungary – sharing a few galleries , a trip to find an elusive woodpecker , and the most exciting news in optics since Galileo discovered Jupiter’s moons – I thought it was time to go back to the beginning of the trip and proceed chronologically.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2012
My week-long trip to Hungary was a familiarity trip organized by the wonderful folks at Swarovski Optik to introduce their new line of superior spotting scopes, the ATX and the STX modular telescopes , which were used to digiscope all of the images in this post. Few are as easy to figure out! …
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2008
In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Overall, Spain had the worst conditions, followed by the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Jaime Oliver is doing a show about the issue in Britain.
Animal Person
APRIL 20, 2009
In " Hungary's Spirits Are Back Up, on a Horse ," the New York Times' Nicholas Kulish reports that a thoroughbred known as Overdose, who is owned by Hungarian Zoltan Mikoczy, has become "the Hungarian Seabiscuit. Overdose has become a celebrity and a symbol and a sign of hope for Hungary.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2012
My week-long trip to Hungary was a familiarity trip organized by the wonderful folks at Swarovski Optik to introduce their new line of superior spotting scopes, the ATX and the STX modular telescopes. Fine, my best bird was a White-backed Woodpecker , alright? … We visited Hortobágy National Park, the Bükk Hills and places in between.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2012
… I wanted to explicitly point out that Swarovski Optik flew me and a bunch of other birders to Hungary for a week of all-expense-paid birding with the new scopes. It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the premiere optics companies in the world.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2018
Yet, it takes great logistical effort to organize the census all the way from Germany to Austria, Hungary and Serbia in the same day, to count on numerous volunteers and hope for the best February weather. I feel that there must be some more good looking girls to attract some boys from Hungary, but I no longer dare to hope.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2012
While on my trip to Hungary I was pleased to bird with and spend time with Tim Appleton, the co-founder and co-organizer of the Birdfair, the world’s largest birding event. Having never been to Birdfair I figured I would ask him why someone would want to go.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2012
And while I can still remember the first time I saw one in 2007, in the company of Jochen and Hendrik in a pine forest on the coast of the Baltic Sea, it took until this year’s trip to Hungary before I managed to get a decent image of one. It’s because they like to crack open or “hatch” nuts for food. …
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2012
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was the last bird he paid attention to in Hungary on Saturday morning before flying back to the United States, a European Goldfinch singing in a tree outside of his hotel. Oh, you didn’t know we were keeping score? It was a great way to end a wonderful week in a new (to Corey) country.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2014
Black Woodpecker – This is a bird that has eluded me on two trips to Germany – both of which included exploring forests where they were supposed to be present – and a trip to a region of Hungary where they are supposed to be common. and now Dragan is getting in on the act as well.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 31, 2013
Still, in recent decades, the Great Black-backed Gull has become a regular migratory and wintering wanderer of neighbouring Hungary and Croatia. Is it because the number of birds is increasing? Or the number of birders is increasing? Or better optics becomes more readily available?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
The Pastures of Great Bustard occupy 6770 ha of extensive steppe, bordered by meadows, pasture, arable fields and seasonally inundated depressions in the north of the country, towards the triple border with Romania and Hungary. That area should be able to support ten times larger population of bustards.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Fortunately, she had the presence of mind to get a picture (not the one at the top of this post, which was taken in Hungary). White Storks are long distance migrants but this would be an astounding record if it were a wild bird.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2012
After Corey shared his story of his hedgehog experience in Hungary I thought you may like to see some rather adorable pictures of a young European Hedgehog in England. It appears that hedgehog numbers in the UK have dropped by 25% in the last 10 years , so every hedgehog that can be saved is extremely worthwhile.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2012
The answer may lie in locations, like Hungary … where rufous cuckoos are more numerous than in the UK. Perhaps the rufous cuckoo is not as good a predator imitator as the gray cuckoo, and thus cannot fool the hosts as well. Or perhaps the rufous females have some physiological or reproductive disadvantages compared to the gray females.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2013
In the same period, neighbouring Hungary had more than 60 pairs of them. Today, Serbia’s population has risen to 4 to 5 pairs, while Hungary’s went up to 130+ pairs! In other words, this globally threatened species barely made it in Serbia. We must be doing something wrong?
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostriches originated in Asia. Ostrich industry in Egypt.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2013
June – Hungary. In June I went to Hungary. I also appreciated Mississippi Kites not too far from my job, great birds on the coast of Queens , and more wood-warblers. Despite all that birding I had some time to try to guess what my next eleven birds in Queens would be. Finally, I learned not to feed the birds.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2018
But, published in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, it was written in Hungarian. It didn’t stop me, although I could understand only dates, some place names (many others have changed) and some bird names (the birds were mentioned by their scientific names and you can imagine how they have changed).
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2015
I have asked myself that same question many times over the last six months, until last week, when I was involved in an opening ceremony of five new bird hides at the Palic Lake, by the town of Subotica in the very north of Serbia, along the border with Hungary (all photos are from that area). Comfort?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
While the Northern Lapwing wasn’t a year bird for me (I was lucky enough to see a couple in Hungary ) it was a new bird for my ABA list , number 495. Eventually we decided to make one more visit to the lapwings and we watched them for awhile again before they took off and headed to the north pasture. I can almost taste 500!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2011
The Crossbill Guide Foundation is a publishing NGO, founded by Dirk Hilbers, and they currently have 10 Crossbill Guides for great European birding/nature areas, including the Finnish Lapland, Hungary’s Hortobagy, France’s Loire Valley and the Biebrza Marshes in Poland. Wholeness, interconnectedness, wonder, beauty.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
And if I dip again? Well, that doesn’t even bear thinking about.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009). The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years. The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2016
Today, birders wanting to see this avian gem usually venture to the healthy populations of the Iberian peninsular or travel to Hungary.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Attila Steiner, who I was lucky enough to meet while I was in Hungary , was ecstatic to see a rare rail in Ghana: It was my last afternoon in Ankasa Reserve, Ghana. A whole bunch of you responded and shared your best birds either in blog post form, email form, or in our comments.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
A team led by cognitive scientist Josef Topál of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people. Along the way, the dogs’ social intelligence became eerily like ours, and not just in their ability to follow a pointed finger.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
Foundation of Animal Protection – Fuzesabony, Hungary. The six shelters chosen this year are: Bobbi and the Strays – Glendale, New York. Castaway Critters – Blairsville, Georgia. Forever Home Feline Ranch – Springfield, Illinois. Cat Shelter – Cumberland, Maine. Kyrenia Animal Rescue – Girne, Turkey.
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