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What is the National Bird of Italy?

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Italy has no national bird! Some places on the web claim that the national bird of Italy is the “bluebird” but this is so untrue that it does not make sense. Some places on the web claim that the national bird of Italy is the “bluebird” but this is so untrue that it does not make sense.

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Animals are Victims of Italy's Earthquake Too

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Tags: natural disaster animal rescue italy earthquake.

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Marchesi Biscardo – Corvina della Provincia di Verona (2017)

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Operated by sommelier and importer Nicola Marchesi, the eponymous label Nicola Biscardo Selections works with smaller, family-owned estates all over Italy to bring these wines to a wider audience around the world. The outfit specializes in wines produced from indigenous Italian grape varieties.

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A Young Lion Rescued from Wildlife Trade Started a New Life in Italy

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A butterfly I photographed here in Italy

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Activists Hit Max Mara Managers in Italy

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From Bite Back: Redecorated with paint and oil the opulent houses of Luigi and Ignazio Maramotti in Albinea (Reggio Emilia). Locked the main entrances. Redecorated with paint also the house of the sister Maria Ludovica located in Reggio Emilia.

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“The Pines of Florence”: Castellare di Castellina Chianti Classico (2018)

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The White-winged Crossbill on the 2018 vintage doesn’t appear to be an expected visitor to Italy according to the range maps I’ve seen, but the label claims that it’s been seen there in Chianti in the past, though it’s now rare there due to the use of herbicides (which this vineyard abstains from using).

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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

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As we move from Spain towards the east however, it starts getting interesting as soon as we reach Italy. Italy has an almost endemic … well … “form” of Sparrow, the Italian Sparrow , whose taxonomic affinities and rank have been a matter of dispute ever since scientists started to think about it.

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Little Fanaticos Soccer Dog Jerseys

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They carry USA, Germany, Brazil, England, France, Italy and more. Little Fanaticos has all kinds of team jerseys, so even if USA isn’t your favorite, you will probably be able to find your team. They would make a really cute Halloween costume too, don’t you think? They make shopping and shipping a breeze too!

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Collaborative List – September 2019 – (Red-letter version)

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10 Beats have been out in 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, Italy and Mexico) and have shared 125 lists to account for 916 birds. Italy is the newest country to feature in our collection of Countries/Territories/SARs/Kingdoms/Principalities and brings this list to 51.

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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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.

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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Whatever they may be, the image makes a handsome label for this week’s wine, the 2015 Siir from San Martino, a vineyard in the Aglianico del Vulture region of Basilicata in Italy. Aglianico vines are still grown in southern Italy today, particularly in area around Mount Vulture, an extinct volcano in Basilicata.

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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. It was only the first in a series of such cargoes. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal.

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Cuckoo for Congo

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Funny story about that – though they did take widely divergent paths they have come back together : Three of the birds, Chris, Martin and Kasper, flew down through Italy and straight across the Sahara desert. The other two, Clement and Lyster, went to Spain and down the Atlantic edge of the continent, more than 1,000 miles to the west.

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Notable Mentions: Digiscoper of the Year 2011

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Here is just a small handful of some of the wonderful images that have moved me this year: The subtle brown hues in mclaudio’s (Italy) Dotterel ( Charadrius morinellus ) image wonderfully place the bird within a habitat – and imagined landscape – context.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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The true “Mediterranean” Gull

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The coast of the Mediterranean Sea is used mostly as a wintering ground, with just a handful of breeding colonies between Greece, northern Italy and eastern Spain (and recently through central Europe all the way to Ireland). So there you have it: conservative taxonomy leads to unfortunate common names.

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What Winter Wonders Wait?

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Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration.

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

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This early weathercock once graced the church of Santi Faustino e Giovita in Brescia, Italy, but now resides at the Museo di Santa Giulia in the same city. The Gallo di Ramperto, the oldest extant weathervane in the world in the shape of a rooster, dating to the ninth century CE.

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The Birding in Costa Rica is Always Good at Lands in Love

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Sandy was a fifty-something guy who had immigrated to the Falls from Campobasso, Italy. Once upon a time in Niagara Falls, NY, they were to a friend of mine whose name was Sandonato. He had a heart of gold, you could see it in his eyes.

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Easy, Bonus Birding at Cano Negro, Costa Rica

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It even entices those of us who seriously dig the fromage (did I ever tell you about the amazing, heavenly provolone I ate at a rest stop somewhere in Italy? Yes, if you understand Spanish or took the time to Google translate it, this does indeed mean “Half Cheese” It’s intriguing. Oh, but this is a birding blog, sorry.).

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Birding the Cyclades: My my, how can I resist you?

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Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. In the IUCN Red List, it is listed as vulnerable because of the high mortality of nestlings that become victims to rats and of adults that end up as a fishery bycatch. But, the Yelkouan Shearwater is also a lifer for me!

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First Outbreak of Usutu Virus in Germany

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It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009). The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

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Superheroes and the Birds

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Along with her team (including her lover Jenny Sparks, the living Spirit of the Twentieth Century) she destroyed an alternate Italy to prevent the invasion of her world and took over the United States in order to run it better than Congress. This is not comic heroism as you remember it.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.

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Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019)

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Despite being debased and reduced to a mere gastronomic buzzword by American chains of Italian-esque eateries, the offerings of dubious submarine sandwich shops, and bastardized and slapped onto corporate supermarket products labels, the word “Tuscan” can still denote genuine gastronomic excellence in a country of proud regional food traditions.

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Zenato “Alanera” Rosso Veronese (2016)

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To paraphrase Aristotle via Aldo Leopold, one swallow does not a summer make, but zero swallows, that is fall. That at least holds mostly true where I am in eastern upstate New York, where I haven’t personally seen a swallow in several weeks, and the last reports in my home county of Albany are now over a fortnight old.

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German Birding Blitz

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Europe… with such low herp diversity the locals split any sub-population of a species that occurs on either the Iberian Peninsula or Italy as a new species just to make them feel better out themselves, naturally is the continent that rose to the top of my trip list. Either that or having family friends in Germany.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Another from the King of Spain dated 30 september 1512 refers to two turkeys which had arrived in Spain from Hispaniola. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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Danish Carl Christian Tofte , a professional illustrator and a birder, has done most of the Tinamous, Wood-Quail, Rheas, Seriema, all of the raptors, most of the shorebirds, all of the owls, most of the hummingbirds, some of the Jacamars, most of the Aracari, all of the falcons, most of the parakeets and parrots, all of the woodcreepers, all of the (..)

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Love “Roller”coaster: Castellare di Castellini Chianti Classico (2016)

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Today is Valentine’s Day – which means that at this very moment, countless would-be Romeos and hopeful Casanovas are undoubtedly scurrying around at the eleventh hour trying to find that perfect gift, tracking down the last florist in town not already sold out of roses, or perhaps merely struggling to choose a perfect bottle of wine for tonight’s dinner. (..)

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Grifalco: Aglianico del Vulture “Gricos” (2016)

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The Gyrfalcon ( Falco rusticolus ), the largest falcon in the world, is as sought after by falconers as it is by birders – and for many of the same reasons: namely, the rarity with which these imposing raptors of the Arctic visit us residing in more temperate climes.

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Sardinia!

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So last week I was in Sardinia. Many fine wines were drunk, and many fine meals were eaten. We also looked at some racing cars, which I guess was sort of the point? But of course, also and above all that, I saw birds. The White Wagtails , omnipresent on all my other trips to Europe, were not around this time.

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

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The remainder of the recipe is relies on grapes grown in the High Valley AVA on the eastern side of the lake and includes the Rhône varietals Syrah (12%), Mourvèdre (4%), and Petite Sirah (4%), as well as Arneis (2%), a grape from Italy’s Piedmont region more often used in white wine production.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. The life list was pumped a further 27 sp up to 3953.

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The Eurasian Woodcock

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Anyway, that paper looked at the concentrations of heavy metals in soils, earthworms, and tissues of woodcocks in Quaderna Valley, northern Italy. I am not sure I understand the logic of this, but I guess evolution does. Where do woodcocks feed?

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. Scopoli’s Shearwater , Tuscany, Italy. Great Spotted Cuckoo , Tuscany, Italy. Northern Gannet , Liguria coast, Italy.

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The Red-billed Leiothrix of Tuscany

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And while most of these introduction attempts failed, the species has now become firmly established as a “countable” species in several areas of France and Italy, and even Spain so far as I was able to find out. Celebrated awesomeness: Trips Europe invasive species Italy'

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‘Tis the Season: Notable Bird Books (and Booze and Binoculars) of 2020

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Aglianico is a rustic and savory red wine from Southern Italy made from a venerable grape of the same name. Overseas visitors who are unsure which field guide to choose should know that with Sasol Birds of Southern Africa you cannot go wrong. Grifalco Aglianico del Vulture “Gricos” (2016).

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