Critter News

MAY 9, 2010

From the Portugal News. The European Commission said on Wednesday it is pursuing legal action against Portugal for breaching nature protection legislation. Tags: habitat europe portugal environment wildlife endangered species. Oh, it's no surprise that the Portuguese are allowing rampant development for tourism.

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Portugal Endangered Species Legislation 2000 100

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APRIL 20, 2023

In 176 pages, this smallish book (180 x 128 mm / 7 x 5”) covers 279 bird species (out of the total of 562) most likely to be seen in Hong Kong, including every species classified as Abundant, Common, or Uncommon in the Hong Kong Bird Report. Species descriptions include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat.

United Kingdom 187

United Kingdom Portugal Birds Asia 187

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By Peter Penning Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and Portugal (holidays). Although work distracts him regularly from the observation of birds, he has managed to see a great many species regardless.

Uganda 235

Uganda Netherlands Monkeys Portugal 235

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APRIL 6, 2023

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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Greece Bulgaria Macedonia Gambia 208

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APRIL 26, 2024

Tucked away at the extreme eastern end of the Mediterranean, Cyprus is regarded politically as part of Europe, but when it comes to birds it’s very much Middle Eastern in flavour, with a number of species that are hard or even impossible to find in Europe, plus a trio of endemics. The song is highly distinctive.

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Cyprus Breeders Falcons Hunters 229

Critter News

MARCH 21, 2009

Miguel Rodrigues, spokesperson for SOS Lynx, stated: "Irrational attitudes constitute one of the main barriers to predator conservation in Spain and Portugal. If predator persecution cannot be adequately controlled, the future recovery of many important predator species will be in doubt". Irrational attitudes?

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Portugal Eagles Spain Killing 100

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JANUARY 19, 2024

There’s also a much greater variety of species of deer living here now than than there were four or five hundred years ago, for along with our native Roe and Red Deer we also have large populations of Fallow, Sika, Reeves’s Muntjac and Chinese Water Deer. Reeves’s Muntjac , a highly successful invasive species in the UK.

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Fur Deer Boars Estonia 221

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MARCH 16, 2024

We exchanged notes on where to find good birds in southern Portugal. My list for the day had a good 50+ species on it but I will go back for that Savi’s Warbler , Great Reed Warbler and Eurasian Reed Warbler bonanza that’s about to start soon. I really hope he will find the Great Bustards. The encounter made me think.

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Psychology Portugal Japan Eagles 178

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APRIL 27, 2023

The Latin species name alphonsiana refers to Prof. Of course, the Red-billed Leiothrix is a species native to Sichuan – in Britain, it is now discussed whether to regard it as an invasive species ( source ). While the Buffy Laughingthrush is a nice-looking bird, its Latin species name berthemyi is quite unfortunate.

Italy 200

Italy Birds China France 200

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America. I remember the talking (Song?)

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 118

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lynford also boasts an arboretum, with 200 different species of trees. Today, in southern England, we rarely have the luxury of trying to tell the two species apart, as Willow T**s have declined so severely that they are now virtually extinct in East Anglia.

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Barn Owls Rats Japan Owls 226

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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. The main island of Sao Tome has about 100 species and 17 endemics among them.

Costa Rica 199

Costa Rica Sri Lanka Rwanda Papua New Guinea 199

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AUGUST 18, 2022

The Latin species name of the Marsh Sandpiper is stagnatilis , which somehow I thought might hint at the thin, needle-sharp bill of the bird (I do not know how I got this idea, maybe the word stagnatilis sounds kind of sharp) but in reality, stagnatilis means “of or belonging to pools or ponds” (HBW).

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Breeding 147

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MARCH 1, 2024

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used. Audouin’s Gull is an attractive species restricted as a breeding bird to the Mediterranean, but many winter in North Africa.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

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JANUARY 20, 2016

It was in Hong Kong that I caught up with the species, as it is easy to find in the splendid wetlands of Mai Po. As well as the population found in East Asia, another smaller population also occurred in the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal. Was it natural, or were the birds in Spain an introduced population.

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Spain Portugal Asia Japan 105

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AUGUST 16, 2018

Serbia has 317 eBirded species so far, or 89% of the 356 in the national checklist. The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 48 with more than 100 bird species. The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 48 with more than 100 bird species. Spring migration March to April , 270 eBirded species.

Serbia 164

Serbia Geese Owls Macedonia 164

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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. Within its 400 pages, the Birds of the West Indies covers 712 species, 550 of them regularly occurring and 190 of those endemic to the region, many of them to single islands. The year was 1941.

Saint Kitts and Nevis 169

Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 169

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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. Here’s a quick overview of the six potential “Purple Swamphen” species: European or Western Swamphen.

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Papua New Guinea Philippines New Zealand Florida 198

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Sure, their field guide, The Collins Guide , claims six species but two, the Corsican Nuthatch and the Algerian Nuthatch , have extremely limited ranges and one of those two isn’t actually found in Europe. That leaves only two species with a decent range and a distinct look.

Hungary 128

Hungary Europe Portugal Georgia 128

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JULY 27, 2012

The Yellow-legged Gull was the last new species I was to add to my list on this trip, after I got sick in Barcelona and found myself confined to my hostel, unable to reach the warm waters of the Mediterranean or even creep to the park in hopes of a Spanish Sparrow. So, end of the world, and here ends the story as well.

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Portugal ALA 2007 Sparrows 164

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JUNE 1, 2012

It turns out that the steppe is one of the places tulips come from and is a center of tulip species diversity. 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. No, no, and no! How did tulips arrive in Holland?

Sri Lanka 206

Sri Lanka Kazakhstan 2009 Portugal 206

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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.

Barn Owls 187

Barn Owls Finland Owls Portugal 187

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Did I dare dip my toe into this catalog of tantalizing species? Phillipps’ Field Guide (I’ll be using this shortened form of the title) covers 673 avian species, including 59 endemics, and 53 species that have not been documented yet for the area but which may show up in the next few years. Now, I’m not so sure.

Brunei 179

Brunei Birds Asia China 179

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Upriver and closer to the vineyards, Companhia das Lezírias has been involved in supporting the TytoTagus project, a post-breeding dispersal study conducted by the ornithology department of the University of Évora.

2013 222

2013 Barn Owls Owls Livestock 222

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MARCH 15, 2011

Dawn Fine Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:50 pm NO Comment YourBirdOasis.com Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:07 pm Yeah, polygynandry is really weird…what other species have this breeding system? In the case of Acorn Woodpeckers, they are cooperative breeders (as with many other polygynandrous species), which seems to predispose species to polygynandry.

2011 221

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

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MARCH 22, 2011

On the grounds, Punta Cana has preserved a 1,500 acre Ecological Park that is an excellent place to view the local endemic bird species and enjoy nature. This project has ensured that this critically endangered bird is being brought back from the brink of extinction.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 194

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JANUARY 12, 2013

The non-profit Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) does not want to see this bullfinch go the way of the dodo, so it is raising funds to maintain the laurisilva or laurel forest this species requires. You gotta love truth in advertising, right?

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Raised Rights Species Birds 190