10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t. It’s complicated.
10,000 Birds
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). No more, no less.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2020
That trip was to take my wife and I to Turkey, Jordan, and southern Spain, with stopovers near Paris. And while it was to be a work (ministry) trip, I had still managed to schedule it right during the migratory peak along these two major corridors. I should have been on my way to Istanbul by the time this post came out.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2012
As soon as I knew that I was heading to Spain, my mind jumped to Lammergeyers. Of course, Spain is home to other vultures. A Turkey Vulture might be an avatar of death come to call, while a Griffon Vulture is heartily alive and looking to mug you for your meat. Then I sent him a picture to explain my excitement. Lammergeyers!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Our 9-day trip to Turkey in September was short, and it was not about birding. Our hosts wanted us to see at least one of Turkey’s biblical sites, along with a small archaeological site in the center of Smyrna that we had visited. I had already seen this raptor in Spain, preparing to cross the Straits of Gibraltar.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 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 India, where he chased that country’s rarest owl. right next to us. Trips Catalonia Europe Spain' Blue Rock Thrush by Szabolcs Kokay.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Not many European countries have their single-country guides (the exception being UK, Spain and a few others with a strong in-country publishing scene). His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. published in the US by Princeton as “Birds of Europe”.
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