10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Only recently was it discovered that one group, which breeds on the Shetland Islands, flies across the Atlantic to winter off the coast of Ecuador – ten thousand miles away from its cousins who breed in Scandanavia and western Russia.

Alaska 200

Alaska Breeding Kenya Africa 200

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Russia won the right to host 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and major construction works are about to begin. Tags: leopard russia. Glorious animals, very beautiful," Putin, surrounded by International Olympic Committee members, told Berdymukhamedov by telephone as he stood by the cage in the Sochi national park.

Leopards 100

Leopards Russia 2014 Game 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands.

Equatorial Guinea 190

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 190

Critter News

MARCH 7, 2012

Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. The rumor mill has it that Bouvry wants to reopen the plant to service more inexpensively developing markets for its product in Russia, China and other Asian nations. I can only imagine how they feel.

Horse Slaughter 100

Horse Slaughter Horses Washington Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.

Germany 173

Germany Russia Iceland India 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

Eggs 163

Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2011

That’s about 400 hundred people in Canada, 2600 in Greenland, 2500 in Svalbrad (Norway), and 700 or so in Russia. Right now I may dream of your Piping Plovers and American Woodcock , but before long I’ll be watching birds that many of you only dream of, Ivory Gulls , Black-legged Kittiwakes , and Gyrfalcons on the nest.

Norway 147

Norway Russia Canada Shelters 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2017

In some cases the males strayed from their Alaska home base for a bit of far-flung sex tourism in Canada and Russia.). Some male Pectoral Sandpipers in the study logged upwards of 13,000 kilometers in a month, visiting up to 24 different breeding sites. (In

Russia 101

Russia Rights Stray Alaska 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. b) Who will play author Jonathan C. Slaght in the film version? So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.

Owls 132

Owls Russia Fish Research 132

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

According to eBird, the Spectacled Weaver can be identified by its “Zorro-like bandit mask surrounding the pale eye” I wonder whether – after Russia incorporated the Z sign into its country’s identity – Zorro movies will be avoided in the Western world. Kind of like Dresden, I guess.

Birds 147

Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The temperatures may not be conducive to shorts and T-shirt but there is still some great early winter birding to be had in Britain right now. Anyone thinking that it’s time to slow down needs to think again. The current influx has almost exclusively involved European breeding birds, probably due to weather conditions in mid-November.

Geese 162

Geese Russia Europe 2009 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

That is the Przevalsky/Przhevalsky who apparently despised the Chinese and openly called for Russia’s annexation of bits and pieces of China’s territory – not quite what Mr. Xi had in mind when he proclaimed a “no-limits friendship” between the two countries.

Birds 130

Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South America (1994), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Europe & Russia (2000) and Central America & the Caribbean (2001). I was always curious, but never had a chance to study any of them.

Africa 167

Africa Botswana Nigeria Namibia 167