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MARCH 15, 2011

This week’s post will focus on a stunning birder-friendly lodge in South Portugal that was the setting for our quest for Great Bustards. This homely place is the aptly named Paradise in Portugal , owned by birder and purveyor of fine wines, Frank McClintock. Paradise in Portugal is a perfect example of this.

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For much of its history, Portugal has sat secluded at what was long considered the very end of the known world — at least from a Western point of view. But like Spain, its only neighbor on the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal is cut off from the rest of Europe by the steep, natural border formed by the Pyrenees.

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Vale da Perdiz means “valley of the partridge” in Portuguese, and the label features a Red-legged Partridge ( Alectoris rufa ), which I believe is the only partridge found in most of Portugal. And while it’s a bird fond of cultivated land, the winery Quinta do Vale da Perdiz offers no story behind its appearance on this label.

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The label Casa Ferreirinha dates to 1845, when Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira took over her family’s port business in the Douro Valley of Portugal.

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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. Portugal has a long history of both falconry and winemaking. Portugal was a source of less poetic, practical information on falconry, as well.

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Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

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JULY 2, 2021

As with our last Birds and Booze post , we’re in Portugal yet again, this time revisiting what is perhaps the world’s most quenching style of wine: vinho verde. Now that it’s officially summer (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), it’s time to cool off with some lighter, more refreshing wines.

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He now lives in the Algarve, Portugal where he is Chairman of the Portuguese Rarities Committee. He is an associate of the Royal Photographic Society and his photographs are regularly published in journals and books all over the world.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Portugal is NOT known for its kindness to animals so this is a significant development for a Portuguese city. From the Portugal News Online. Tags: animal shelters portugal strays.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

I like reading the blog for ANIMAL, the animal rights group in Portugal. I have no idea how big or effective they are, but it's nice to know that there are people in Portugal who feel the same about animals as I do. Tags: portuguese-americans portugal animal rights. VIVA ANIMAL!

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For the whole story, go to Portugal News On-Line. As a Portuguese-American, I find this just revolting. Prótoiro, the Portuguese Federation of Bullfighting Associations, placed an injunction again Viana do Castelo Town Hall this month after their refusal to allow the event to go ahead on municipal land.

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We also have a hoopoe gracing the label of this week’s wine, the 2017 Vinho Verde “Bicudo” from the Quintas das Arcas vineyards in northern Portugal. Once an obscure specialty of northern Portugal, vinho verde has become increasingly popular and easier to find abroad.

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APRIL 27, 2023

It seems that the Red-billed Leiothrix can be vocally dominant (it accounts for 37% of an entire bird community soundscape in northern Italy) and can influence the singing behavior, particularly of native Eurasian Blackcaps and European Robins (in Portugal and Italy). And who wants birds with highly visible Hitler mustaches anyway?

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

A British student studying in Porto, Portugal, was handing out leaflets in front of "Beigel," a fur shop. Tags: fur portugal. The post in the ANIMAL blog is in Portuguese , but here's the gist of it. She was volunteering for ANIMAL. She had already been threatened by the owner on Wednesday for trespassing on her premises.

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JUNE 23, 2009

First up, Paul Watson goes through Portuguese Customs: At one point the officer came into the room and asked if I had ever been in trouble in Portugal and then added, “Something about a Dutch ship about 10 years ago?” A few moments later he returned and said, “Excuse me, did you do anything illegal in the 70’s in Portugal?” “I

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MARCH 27, 2012

I am on a quick trip to the Lisbon area in Portugal and – I must admit – I was taken completely by surprise about how this conglomeration of people, water and nature are put togerther. In preparation for this trip I had spent some time with my friend the google machine and he (she?

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MARCH 16, 2016

Instead of wintering in Africa and breeding in Europe, growing numbers of the birds now appear to be staying put in Spain and Portugal. The paper, published in the journal Movement Ecology , describes a striking change in White Storks’ migratory behavior. Makes sense—why drive for take-out when you’ve got a permanent dine-in option?).

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JANUARY 20, 2016

As well as the population found in East Asia, another smaller population also occurred in the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal. The Azure-winged Magpie was for the longest time something of a biogeographical mystery. Was it natural, or were the birds in Spain an introduced population.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Blue skies with perhaps a touch of smog over the scintillating central coast of Portugal (Find out why Dale Forbes finds Lisbon birding pretty crazy …) a. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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AUGUST 18, 2022

In Southern Portugal, Little Ringed Plovers nest either along natural streams or near agricultural ponds. Being a fairly incompetent birder, I always have problems distinguishing between the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and the Long-toed Stint.

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JULY 18, 2019

Reachable by direct flights from Portugal, the island country of Sao Tome and Principe lying in the Gulf of Guinea, in the armpit of Africa, has about 140 bird species and 28 endemics – more endemics per square mile than anywhere else on Earth.

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JULY 27, 2012

Cabo da Roca in Portugal is actually slightly farther west, but at the time accurate measurements were not much on people’s minds. So, end of the world, and here ends the story as well.

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MAY 3, 2013

Portugese workers brought in to trim the local trees clustered around the television set, drinking heavily and watching a Portugal-Spain soccer match; during a moment of celebratory elation, a shirtless man raced by with a Portugese flag stuck down the back of his pants, the red and green banner snapping jauntily as he disappeared out the door.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

Talking to Jan Södersved the editor of the Birdlife Finland magazine Linnut whilst we were both in Portugal in early October suggested that all of the owl species in Finland had had a very productive breeding season. Short-eared Owls do breed in Britain but every few years an ‘irruption’ of the like we are seeing occurs.

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In other word, for most of the year some 260-270 species are visible, hearable and recordable. That number drops to still good 200 in winter. The peak season is the second half of April and the first half of May.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

The Nuthatch , which only visiting birders refer to as an Eurasian Nuthatch , is found throughout temperate Europe and Asia from Portugal to Japan. The other species, Sitta europaea , is the subject of this blog post.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Late June night at the Casino Estoril, then the largest casino in Europe, located in the neutral Portugal where spies of all colours met. Yet, it will be several more years until James Bond was born. The year was 1941. The casino was thick with people and tobacco.

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DECEMBER 28, 2014

The colorful Purple Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New Zealand and the Samoan Islands, and a feral population is now well established in Florida.

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JUNE 1, 2012

When he returned to Portugal in disgrace after usurping his position from the rightful governor, Sampayo supposedly took tulip bulbs with him from Sri Lanka. The era during which the Ottoman Empire was wealthiest is called the Tulip era, or Lale Devri in Turkish.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. I hope I will be able to return someday. Morlene Midway 1964-65 Share Your Thoughts « Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger? Thanks for visiting!

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MARCH 22, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or

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She currently lives in the Algarve, Portugal and Quentin splits his time between London and Sabah, according to the brief biographies in the back of the book. Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005).

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MARCH 15, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal Audubon Rebrand » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. @Laurent, I cannot find anything on White-throated Sparrows being polygynandrous. Do you know of any references for this?

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AUGUST 3, 2011

The Indian government has decided to add bulls to the list of animals protected from entertainment uses. This prevents them from being exploited in Goa, an Indian state that had considered reviving the tradition. Goa was once part of the Portuguese empire which is where the bullfighting ridiculousness comes from.as

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JANUARY 12, 2013

The Azores Bullfinch ( Pyrrhula murina ), also known as the Priolo or São Miguel Bullfinch , is an understated beauty endemic to the island of São Miguel in the Azores. This bird is also highly endangered, with a known population of just over 1,000 birds.

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