10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
If you’ve birded in Spain, possibly more than once, and are considering another Mediterranean country to quench your thirst, look to the east. There is one more reason to take my hat off: all funds raised from selling the books go directly towards bird protection projects in Greece. Birding in Greece ” by Chris Vlachos et al.,
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
They were my target species, and I remember being delighted in not only seeing them well, but finding feeding flocks that were remarkably unconcerned about being watched. Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Last year, in November, I notched up a dozen species of butterflies, an impressive total anywhere in Europe so late in the year. Herds of domesticated Water Buffalo can be seen around the lake A week’s winter birding should produce a tally of anything from 120 to 130 species, depending on how hard you work, luck and the weather.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Birds and Us starts with Birkhead’s visit to Cueva del Tajo de las Figuras, located in Andalusia, Spain and the Neolithic bird paintings on its walls. One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. International teams compete for 6 days and 5 nights with the express purpose of recording the most bird species, by sight or by call, while the clock ticks down.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2013
In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and, in the instance of this epic report, India. The Forest Owlet is an endemic species of this mountain range. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching.
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