10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2024

I have seen few species with the word “House” in their English names ( House Sparrow , Wren , and Finch ), as well as a couple of “Barn” birds ( Barn Swallows and Owls ). The Gartered Trogon : In Michoacán, our two trogon species are both red, white and green (like the Mexican flag). But it was close.

Morocco 182

Morocco Birds Turkey Mexico 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2020

Now is when we can venture into the closest park and see birds of the deep woods, species that breed far from town. It’s the other species hiding out there, the ones that can be here from one day to the next that I am really hoping for. Now is the special time that birders look forward to all year long.

Costa Rica 218

Costa Rica 2020 Spain Panama 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Species formerly referred to as P. One recent study found that this species was sister to P. perdix , and also that race przewalskii (sometimes subsumed within suschkini , but generally paler) was basal to other taxa included within the present species. barbata , but present name has priority. So, I later looked this up.

China 256

China Birds Austria ALA 256

10,000 Birds

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.

Lithuania 130

Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

She was attracted by the number of different species and their colors. She has a very broad knowledge of species. In Ecuador, there are 1.600+ species of birds. Mindo Cloud Forest has been always on top of Christmas Bird Counts all over the world with 450+ species! Why organize with us your birding/photo tour in Ecuador?

Ecuador 189

Ecuador Spain Experience Experiments 189

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. It’s a species with numerous alternative names, of which the commonest is Waldrapp, the name used in Germany and until recently, commonly used in English.

Morocco 233

Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 233

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species. As she notes, Eastern Europe contains significant pockets of agriculturally undeveloped land, and thus has a far greater diversity of species “from invertebrates to large carnivores” than in Northern Europe.

Barn Owls 113

Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

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.

Spain 104

Spain Portugal Asia Japan 104

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

One – the Takahe is far too cool a species to lose. Two – there is so much distinctness amongst the different forms of the Purple Swamphen that lumping means we may as well lump all the world’s reed warblers into one huge species and be done with it. ” Birds Europe Purple Swamphen rails Spain'

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Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

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 The area is known for being a breeding area of the enigmatic Rufous Crab-Hawk and it was the first place I saw the species, many years ago. hours one-way. Rufous Crab-Hawk. Maybe another time.

Sea Turtles 265

Sea Turtles Bats Turtles Trinidad 265

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

I would be fascinating to know how many species of birds it was pointed at during its time with me, but it must have been well over 1,000. I had owned the scope, from new, for 23 years, in which time it had travelled with me to four different continents and around 40 different countries.

Poland 209

Poland Estonia India Pelicans 209

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

We estimate that one in four species is threatened with extinction and that the population of one in two is declining," the researchers said in a report to be published Friday in the journal Science. The findings were being released Monday at the IUCN meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

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Switzerland Species Spain Mammals 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

All I still need to learn is how to save them and copy them outside the system, and you kind, patient folk will be able to read about my new Moroccan and Turkish feathered friends (and one from Spain). Which brings me up to the title for this post. In fact, I have not formally gone birding, at all. But which one?

Mexico 195

Mexico Morocco Cuba Jordan 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals. In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically.

Fur 196

Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 196

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.

Greece 221

Greece Pelicans Geese Buffalo 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2012

The death of Lonesome George has robbed the world of not only a (sub)species (albeit one that has been functionally extinct for a long time since) but of one of the few celebrity reptiles. For this reason, I’d like to take a break from my bird recital and talk for a minute about the truly marvelous reptiles I saw in Spain.

Reptiles 175

Reptiles Spain Monkeys Cows 175

10,000 Birds

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.

2015 158

2015 Portugal France Europe 158

10,000 Birds

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'

Spain 172

Spain Ostriches Africa Canada 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

In its natural old-world range, the House Sparrow offers an interesting identification challenge and has vagrant potential since it is a polytypic species with a highly complex taxonomy. The genus Passer has several well-recognized and recognizable species in Europe, and still holds several enigmas.

Sparrows 225

Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 225

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

I am planning to have this post be the first in a (very) small series on Europe’s “large white-headed gulls” It will of course only be a small series since there aren’t that many large white-headed gull species in Europe and particularly because I don’t want to cause too harsh a drop in the blog’s visitor numbers.

Europe 128

Europe Spain Italy Ireland 128

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

So, yes, it was Spain. Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra. My life White Stork.

Spain 175

Spain Europe Industry Rodents 175

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.

Turkey 209

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2020

Flashback two weeks and my daily check of recent eBird sightings reveals the presence of several tours taking place, lots of cool birds being seen and enjoyed by dozens of birders, no doubt many of the species are lifers, dozens of bird species seen during trips of a lifetime. As I write this, the weather is ironically gorgeous.

Costa Rica 237

Costa Rica Birds Spain New York 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

To the relief of Mexican birders everywhere, this species was split several years later into two species; the black-and-white eastern race is now Morelet’s Seedeater , and the more colorful western race is now the Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater. What I didn’t know was that this is a very special species. or Canada.

Birds 171

Birds Mexico California Spain 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. There are more than 1100 plant species, the most valuable being the 76 endemics. Other species include Roe Deer (also spotted), Wildcat , European Pine Marten and Otter.

Serbia 264

Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

Critter News

MARCH 1, 2010

That's a problem with humans as a species, not with specific people like this woman. Tags: lynx spain charities endangered species. They run the governments, they run businesses, they run everything. And they still don't have enough money! They are a huge minority. Stop blaming general human selfishness on people like her.

Endangered Species 100

Endangered Species Spain Humane Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Some of my readers may recall that my wife and I went to Spain a few months ago. We stayed with friends in the tiny French town of Cessy, and there I saw my second European woodpecker species, the handsome Great Spotted Woodpecker. That was a work trip, although I still managed to find a few mornings to bird. The Long-tailed Tit.

Switzerland 114

Switzerland Austria Europe Spain 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion. In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia.

Cattle 170

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

For example, the White-headed Duck is nowadays a rarity in Europe (okay, excluding Spain, I know… that Spain …), but until some 50 years ago, it used to breed in Serbia. And that is why the hides are where they are, not to admire the scenery (or shoot at it – hunting is prohibited in the reserve and the ban is enforced).

Serbia 252

Serbia Birds Spain Hungary 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

These goods, purchased with Mexican silver, would then be transported overland through Mexico City, and shipped from Veracruz to Spain. The 29 species I added to my January list say so as well.) It originally served as the port of entry for goods brought from Asia by Spanish galleons. Is Acapulco a worthwhile birding destination?

Birds 164

Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2024

At the time of writing, my British year list stands at a modest but satisfactory 139, while my European list is on 173, thanks to a visit to southern Spain in February. A lone Whooper Swan on a grey January day in Norfolk As for the ducks – I’m now up to 15 species. We have had a winter with no snow, and few frosts, so no Smew.

Spain 130

Spain Eagles North America Ducks 130

Critter News

MARCH 21, 2009

The shooting occurred sometime between 21 and 23 February in the Vale do Guadiana Natural Park, close to the country's south-eastern border with Spain. Miguel Rodrigues, spokesperson for SOS Lynx, stated: "Irrational attitudes constitute one of the main barriers to predator conservation in Spain and Portugal. Irrational attitudes?

Portugal 100

Portugal Eagles Spain Killing 100

10,000 Birds

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?)

2017 118

2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 118

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It varies in appearance across its enormous range, and a new genetic study — Dispersal and speciation in purple swamphens (Rallidae: Porphyrio) — bolsters the case that this “supertramp” is actually a superspecies that could be split into six different species. Above: Swamphen in Australia by James Niland).

Papua New Guinea 197

Papua New Guinea Philippines New Zealand Florida 197

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. Trips endangered species India owlets owls'

India 259

India Owls Tigers Endangered Species 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

Chicago 207

Chicago New York City New York Illinois 207

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

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. The Tramuntanas – Spain. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team.

Peru 235

Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 235