10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Petersburg, Russia. Immediately I began looking for new species, spotting right away a dark, crow-like bird with a grey mantle and belly. Trips Europe Russia' Common Chaffinch.

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Russia Iceland Birds Europe 150

Critter News

AUGUST 22, 2010

Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia. To prevent the Spoon-billed Sandpiper's extinction urgent action is needed, both to find ways to give local people economic alternatives to hunting birds and to persuade hunters to release any sandpipers they catch. Tags: birds hunting endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Next came a stop in Russia. Obviously many species of birds can be quite elusive, but this may be your best bet at getting you close to where you’ll need to be.

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Finland Estonia Birds Europe 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the British Trust for Ornithology’s BirdFacts website, “Although a small number of vagrant Red-breasted Geese from the declining arctic Siberian breeding population winter in Britain each year, the species is popular in wildfowl collections and many birds are of captive origin. The post The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 136

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Conversely, many American hunters refer to the gray/grey bird as the Hun, a shortened version of Hungarian, for Hungary was the source of many of the birds introduced to the Americas. The two species are only distantly related, for Grey Francolins are true francolins, hence the name Francolinus pondicerianus.

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