10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys. You know that classical definition of what separates men from boys? impressive for Central Europe.

Austria 299

Austria Factory Asia Battery 299

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2024

This unusual bird is definitely one of my favourite species in Europe, so I was very happy to connect with it (and to hear its call for the first time). While experiments have shown that some birds (like crows and parrots) can count, this rule unsurprisingly did not hold when subjected to testing.

Germany 224

Germany Birds Parrots Africa 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

I strained to see them, could only see an occasional booby escape our bow, watch some of the hundreds of Wedge-tailed and Pink-footed Shearwaters zip by and hold on as our boat tested its speed. As we approached and drew nearly alongside the small seabirds, we also tested the limits of our optics, our balance, and our focus.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Stemming from Richardson’s decades-long programme of population-mapping on the island, maps in BOC show status (resident, breeding, wintering or passage visitor) but also the region where the species appear and, in case of waterbirds, individual wetlands marked all over the Cyprus map. The Birds of Cyprus definitively.

Cyprus 264

Cyprus Saudi Arabia Europe Birds 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Most definitely so. And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders.

Congo 264

Congo Africa Madagascar Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2015

alba : yellow in non-breeding season (usually less bright than egretta ), entirely black in breeding season. Absolute field marks between two similar species describe a difference that can be judged definitely by looking at a single bird. egretta is slightly smaller than alba , although there is overlap in measurements.

North America 180

North America Europe America Asia 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” ” Take that, spoonbill.

Geese 147

Geese Birds Fish Sparrows 147