10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Visiting the continent after the end of most of the autumn migration meant that the number of bird species I could see in northern France, Switzerland, southern Germany, and Austria was much reduced. So I made sure to visit as many bodies of water as possible during my brief birding opportunities.

Austria 182

Austria Switzerland Europe Geese 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

led to folk traditions of stork protection have managed to retain at least a fragment of their breeding White Stork populations in the face of industrialization, while areas that were more indifferent (like western France) are now storkless. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

Spain 231

Spain Europe Rodents France 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan.

Cattle 193

Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 193

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

This shearwater is a Mediterranean endemic, breeding from Sardinia and Corsica to the Adriatic and the Aegean. Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. But, the Yelkouan Shearwater is also a lifer for me!

Greece 252

Greece Malta Croatia Italy 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2011

One of Britain’s recent colonisers the Mediterranean Gull begins to arrive in bigger numbers every year as post-breeding dispersal takes hold. Some acquire an almost adult-like hood, this individual was ringed at Pas de Calais, France in 2009 and first appeared locally in October that year.

Poland 157

Poland 2009 France Europe 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556.

Turkey 260

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. You have to have a lot of respect for all migratory birds when you imagine the lives they live and the incredible journeys they make to enable them to breed and to continue to survive in a changing world.

Belarus 162

Belarus Cameroon Taiwan China 162

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We’ll see ambitious programs to save diverse species from the outback of Australia, the savannahs of East Africa, the Brazilian Amazon and some of the most successful zoo breeding programs in the world. A new captive breeding program may be the cats’ last hope. Miracle Babies: Baby Pandas. Tuesday, September 13, at 8P ET/PT.

Pandas 100

Pandas Leopards Gorillas Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

I found this out last year, on a trip to France with my daughter Sarah. I did notice that many French dragonflies depicted on the Internet (at least those from northern and central France) are also found in Great Britain. Sections on Behaviour, Breeding Habitat, and Population and Conservation offer brief but specific information.

Ireland 232

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2024

Here in the Brecks – an area of poor, sandy soils on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk – we have a small but important breeding population. They favour the old heaths, but a number of pairs also breed on farmland. Brettenham Heath National Nature Reserve holds the highest density of nesting Curlews in the Brecks.

Fox 246

Fox Finland Badgers Sweden 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

In Europe, Lesser Kestrels are birds of the Mediterranean zone, nesting mainly in Spain and Portugal, southern France, Sardinia, the Balkans and parts of Greece. On their breeding grounds in Spain, Lesser Kestrels are very much city birds, for 95% of the population nests in towns. Perhaps some females remain, too, but I didn’t see any.

Falcons 246

Falcons Spain Europe South Africa 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. 40,000 birds.”

Serbia 203

Serbia Montenegro Greece Bulgaria 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This population’s breeding range is covers much of the Eastern Arctic, from northern Labrador up to Ellesmere, in as far west as the Kivaliq region (Rankin Inlet, Arviat). This tiny passerine winters in Africa, places like Tanzania, Nigeria, Somalia. From the Tundra to the African Steppes.

Somalia 255

Somalia Africa Nigeria North America 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. Northern France is another area with a strong population. There are just a few areas left where it still thrives.

Hungary 235

Hungary Fox Norway Eggs 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

… Have I seen a Corn Crake… maybe in France? No, I’d remember that, I didn’t see that many birds in France. …maybe there’s a secret Corn Crake breeding farm out in Gilgo Beach. Isn’t it a Eurasian bird?… What if it’s an escapee? Do people keep Corn Crakes?…maybe

New York 189

New York North America France Feral Cats 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. While the HBW states that it breeds at 300 – 2450 meters, in Shanghai – where such elevations are not available outside of the upper floors of a few highrises – it makes to with an altitude of about 0 meters as well.

Birds 130

Birds Eggs Breeders McDonalds 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. Lots to think about.

2011 263

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. or birds that look very different in their breeding and non-breeding plumages (Shorebirds! I studied it. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.

Ireland 217

Ireland 2013 Breeders United Kingdom 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

And, it is a guide based on scholarship as well as field work (author Reeber has monitored the birds of the Lac of Grand-Lieu, France, for the National Society for Nature Protection (SNPN) since 1994). This section also includes range maps, indicating range by breeding season, wintering season, and residence year-round.

North America 189

North America Asia Europe America 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2024

I knew I would be in southern France in the summer, and chances weren’t bad to see the species there. Ring-necked Parakeet Ring-necked Parakeet Staying with the hole-breeding theme, the chicks of the ever-present Eurasian Nuthatches and Great T**s had left their nests by now.

Sri Lanka 246

Sri Lanka France Feral Cats Owls 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For one, it’s made not in Poland, Russia, or Scandinavia, but in France, a country better known for distilling spirits from grapes and apples. His formula calls for French soft winter wheat grown in Picardy, a region in the northeast of France known as the breadbasket of the country. This may be your Anser.

Geese 189

Geese France Branding Poland 189