10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2011

To date individuals have been recorded from nine different countries in Europe; our Med Gulls are coming from Germany, Holland, Poland and other countries as far east as Serbia. Recently local birder Steve Holliday spent some time collating all the local information on ringing reports for this species with some interesting results.

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Poland 2009 Europe France 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 229

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Further north, in Poland, they used to write off all Ruddy Shelducks recorded, assuming they were escapees, until they found one ringed in Kazakhstan! Soon, I found three large ducks on the water, but as soon as I come closer, they took flight, like proper wild ducks. In the end, were they escapees, or the real McCoy?

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Serbia Ducks Poland Kazakhstan 248

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2017

Valentine’s Day , one of them visiting Poland and Germany in the meantime). It took me less than three minutes to find the otherwise rare Great Black-backed Gull among thousands of Mew and Common Black-headed Gulls (we saw two CBHGs that were ringed at the same landfill on this particular St.

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Serbia Croatia 2000 Costa Rica 185

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.

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Poland Transported Hungary France 201

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. Imagine you study history.

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For one, it’s made not in Poland, Russia, or Scandinavia, but in France, a country better known for distilling spirits from grapes and apples. Deciding what to drink on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? This may be your Anser. A few things make this Grey Goose stand out from the rest of the vodka flock.

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Geese Branding France Poland 137

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2023

My winning picture was of a Wryneck, photographed in an apple tree in an orchard in Poland the previous year. Arguably the high point of my digiscoping career was in 2012, when I won the digiscoping class in the British Birds Bird Photographer of the Year awards.

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