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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
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.
Critter News
APRIL 10, 2009
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2021
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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JUNE 25, 2022
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NOVEMBER 23, 2020
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2021
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).
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
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.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 6, 2009
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!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2019
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.
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2019
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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2011
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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2011
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
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 ).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
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.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2015
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.).
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
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!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
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 (..)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
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. (..)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2019
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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
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.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2020
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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2017
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
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'
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2020
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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