Abandon Europe Rights 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2024
There are Harbour Porpoises right next to the ferry! I already know that for sea-watching I need to go to the lighthouse, walk down on the right-hand side following the sign Silvergrottan to the rather luxurious viewing platform on the tip of the cape. But in Europe, nothing. What’s that? A fin, another one.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. By the last year of the war, the US increased its military aid to the Greek Government and introduced a new weapon: the first napalm attack after World War II took place right here! Am I disappointed because of that?
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2019
Even in the comparable wilderness of coastal Shanghai, it is far more likely to see the tree sparrow near an abandoned hut than in a more pristine spot. I am not a big fan of the Spotted Dove , though it has to be said that in the right light, it can also look quite nice.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2019
The toughest thing for me, as a local birder, was to choose the most attractive birds because those that attract my attention are generally all too common in the northwest of Europe, from where most visiting birders are coming. and the first skyscraper built in Southeast Europe, in 1939. Hence, I asked my friend B.C.,
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2014
No, seriously, a brown warbler with stripes in central Europe really means you are either looking at a Grasshopper Warbler or a Sedge Warbler. Sedge Warbler (left) and Grasshopper Warbler (right – duh!). The only thing to focus on then is the head pattern and flanks & undertail coverts.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2015
In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2016
I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s most attractive and desired bird species: the Great Bustard Otis tarda. Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right.
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