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MARCH 22, 2012

I was disappointed that Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was one of those that signed a petition to keep this cruel and unnecessary torture of animals around. I guess I won't be reading his books! For the full story, go here to latino.foxnews.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

After weeks of preparation (and not writing many 10,000 Bird posts), my wife and I are finally in Spain. Algeciras, Spain, to be specific — right around the bay from Gibraltar. Our trip to southern Spain is a work trip, so it was a week until I was able to get out and bird in form. Black Kite.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Greater Flamingo, Málaga, Spain. I had to go to southern Spain to knock that one off my bucket list. Seeing White Storks in Spain this year was pretty cool, too. And the winner is… Eurasian Hoopoe, Madrid, Spain. I just haven’t seen any of them. I mean, come on!

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2012

It's not like Spain has enough problems now, it has to have an idiot king. King Juan Carlos may be the King of Spain, but he is no longer the honorary president of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Spain due to his hunting and killing of elephants in Botswana, Treehugger reports. Good for them! What a hypocrite! From EcoRazzi.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

I had a work trip to southern Spain earlier this month. But, amazingly, not all the “House Sparrows” I saw were House Sparrows ; a large group in Algeciras, in southern Spain, were Spanish Sparrows , and a smaller group in Madrid were European Tree Sparrows. (In The rush returns, and now we know enough to appreciate it!

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

So I was excited to finally get to take a trip to Spain and the Middle East that we had originally planned… for the ill-fated month of March, 2020. Three years ago, I saw a single Greater Flamingo , my first wild flamingo, in southern Spain. It’s a good thing that I can access some 300+ michoacano birds! But, still.).

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Critter News

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Complete with pictures. "On On the night between Wednesday and Thursday we put incendiary devices in the Cascante (Navarra) bullring. They worked and they were effective. Bullfighting is a symbol of animal exploitation in which bulls are tortured and killed because there are people who find it fun.

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Critter News

MARCH 20, 2012

It's a pretty powerful image.

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JUNE 28, 2023

From Port of Spain, the journey can take approximately three hours. The Icacos Lagoon is a magnificent spectacle even without considering its wildlife. Hundreds of people visit here each year, many of which are locals in awe of the landscape and committed to several hours in a vehicle.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If it hasn’t begun already, the grape harvest should be getting underway in Spain this month. If the storks have been making the great journey back and forth between Spain and Africa long before people even began making wine, the feature grape of this single-varietal wine – the green-skinned Albariño – is a more recent arrival to Catalonia.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

These are all from Lake Cuitzeo, to which I went to see the migratory waterfowl and shorebirds that had arrived while we were in Spain and the Middle East. Because of point number two, I will avoid my usual wordy exposition, and go straight to the photos. I’ll start with this Cinnamon Teal.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

So I was hiking in Southern Spain (Andalusia in the Malaga province) and came across this really bizarre nest up in the fir tree. It seems to be made out of palms, and MOST bizarrely, it was leaking water? I’ve tried some googling but haven’t found anything so maybe someone here knows?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Our relatively-recent trip to Spain and the Middle East was, as expected, a great opportunity to see new birds. In the end, it gave me 44 lifers: 10 from Turkey and 8 from Jordan, which I had not visited before, and 26 from Spain, which I had visited previously, but in which we spent much more time.

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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).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I had already seen this raptor in Spain, preparing to cross the Straits of Gibraltar. I had seen Great White Pelican s in Izmir, but the Dalmatian Pelican was a new-to-me inland bird. Overhead, a Booted Eagle rode thermals slowly upward. Could this individual have done the same, across Turkey’s Bosphorus straits, recently?

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JULY 29, 2021

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MARCH 5, 2023

First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. I recently received a kind letter from a 10,000 Birds friend, who was worried that my recent irregularity in contributing to this website might indicate that something was wrong. I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Good. (..)

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APRIL 25, 2020

On account of a strict curfew in Spain, such is the situation for David Lindo, the “ Urban Birder “ He has been watching and telling us about the birds identified from his terrace during more than 40 days of lockdown (!). The viewing might also be restricted to a terrace.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

THE MATADOR – one of the most abiding and traditional images of Spain – has been removed from advertising by a leading Irish travel company following a protest by animal rights activists. The Travel Department confirmed that it had used a photograph of a bullfighter in a newspaper advertisement for a holiday in Spain.

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JUNE 7, 2012

A beagle rescued from a laboratory in Spain and brought to the Los Angeles has run off and his humans are trying to find him. :-(. This is such a sad story.

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MARCH 23, 2023

A Bulgarian conservationist Emilian Stoynov told me that this vulture hatched in 2021 in Spain and, rehabilitated, was transferred to neighbouring Bulgaria, acclimatised and released in Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park in 2022. It is soaring higher, ever higher, until it is gone, nowhere to be spotted (likely, glided away).

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AUGUST 31, 2012

The policy change comes under the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy which is widely seen as opposed to all attempts to curtail the national fiesta in Spain.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Overall, Spain had the worst conditions, followed by the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Tags: UK europe spain pigs factory farm.

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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. Was it natural, or were the birds in Spain an introduced population. Still, at least it provides an excuse to go to Spain, or Hong Kong! Are they taunting me? There we go.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Spain is much more advanced than Portugal in this area, but both need improvement (as do we all.). The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany.

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JULY 18, 2021

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MARCH 13, 2020

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. Beyond that is the entire expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching some six-hundred leagues west to Newfoundland — and even further to the mainland shores of North America.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The massive beast charged through the fortified town of Tordesillas, central Spain, crossing a bridge over the River Duero and into a plain in a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

David Brito (from Canary Islands, Spain), started operations with our hotel on 14th February 2015 and very fast positioned in Mindo because of our superb infrastructure and top-notch service. Also our local drivers Alfredo, Byron, Cesar, Oscar, … are not just “drivers”.

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MAY 7, 2012

An unidentified German actor has been stopped by Berlin’s administrative court, following his announcement that he planned to strangle two puppies with cable wires on stage to protest against the slaughter of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, with their death being accompanied by a funeral march music and loud gong.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Let’s just say that the journey from the capital city, Port of Spain, to the said peninsula could easily run into 2.5 Most tourists historically spent their time at the northern end of the island and although it may seem like a small place – getting around can be a bit tricky. hours one-way.

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APRIL 23, 2012

As Spaniards grapple with severe austerity measures and 24 percent unemployment, their king is dealing with a different kind of pain — extreme embarrassment over public outrage upon his return from an elephant hunt in Africa that cost nearly $60,000, or more than twice the average salary in Spain.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2019

Since I will still be enjoying my last couple of days in Spain on this week’s deadline, I thought it might be the moment to share it with all of you. In April of this year, I had the crazy idea of submitting this article to 10,000 Birds for their consideration. I’ll post more recent material next week!

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

It was actually logistically easier for me to stay away from Gibraltar itself which, as a British Crown Colony with constrained geography, a slowish, passport-controlled border with Spain and relatively limited flight connections, has its limitations. Trips hawkwatch raptors Spain'

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MARCH 4, 2011

While shooting the premiere episode of National Geographic Channel’s new series, Beast Hunter , host Pat Spain visited the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia to visit a seven-year-old Orangutan named Pinky. Too cute, right?! Pinky sure does love Pat!

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