10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! Ospreys have shown a remarkable recovery in Germany. Four stars!!), or from Coreys small series on national birds is left for you to decide.

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Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2019

Barn Swallows are pretty much anywhere in the world (I just saw them back in Germany). But the way it is, familiarity breeds (relative) contempt. The Chinese Pond Heron is another attractive bird, particularly in its breeding plumage. During my last trip to Germany, several people pointed out locations of Common Kingfisher.

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Germany Cattle Blackbirds Birds 126

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MAY 27, 2024

Given how far Hokkaido is from Europe, it seems a bit surprising how many bird species wintering on this Japanese island have a name starting with “Eurasian” Or how many of these species I have also seen in my parents’ garden in Germany. One would hope that in Germany, the situation is a bit different.

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APRIL 2, 2017

Here in central Europe, dippers – more precisely the White-throated or European Dipper – are rather common breeding birds in many areas. In Germany for example, they are breeding in practically every hilly or mountainous region south of the North German Plain and are not really rare if they occur in a certain region.

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MARCH 5, 2017

However, one of the little sweet candies Germany still enjoys today from its own disastrous colonial past is the Common Guillemot, or Common Murre. Germany has only one high seas island it calls its own, the mighty (from a birding perspective) island of Heligoland. km²) in the German Bight, approximately 70 km off the coast of Germany.

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MAY 31, 2015

Germany is currently experiencing something for which the English have no nice expression. The specificities of languages … Anyway, so Germany this year is essentially filled with mice, like the one shown here, which – so far as I know – is a vole where you come from. You’re not a vole or a gerbil.

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Fox Rodents Gophers Germany 164

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JULY 24, 2014

Germany is underrated as a birding destination. Greater Rheas, a species the Germans call Nandu, are very popular in Germany and frequently kept in zoos as well as private enclosures. The following map (taken from the highly esteemed site ornitho.de ) shows all observations of Greater Rheas throughout Germany since 1999.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Of course, for countries with mostly moderate climates such as the US, China, Japan, or Germany, it is always easier to claim that the winter range is the problem (i.e., not their own). Fear not, science has an answer: about 1.16 How to distinguish the two species, as they look somewhat similar?

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Introduced breeding species and species recorded only as escapees now have all species illustrated (they were not in the #2) and those illustrations larger than before. Forget occasional escapees, there is an established feral population successfully breeding in the north of Germany, which was 131 birds strong last year.

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 252

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Here in Germany, we don’t wish we had. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. Because we never have had.

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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. Now that I might have wetted your appetite, here’s where and how to find them in Germany: 1.

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JUNE 23, 2011

A locally famous one, if you are birding in Germany’s North-East, is the outhouse of the bird ringing / banding station on a small island called the Greifswalder Oie (page sadly only in German, but it has some pictures of the place). Now, the “but&# : It wasn’t always like this in Germany. Where are the birds?

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Germany Birds Iraq Breeding 162

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APRIL 20, 2024

Then sometimes when you see these birds actively regaining their energy and getting ready for defending territories and breeding, they give the impression that their migration had just been a short jog around the block rather than a marathon across desert, mountains, and oceans.

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Soreing Owls Eagles Woodpeckers 172

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females. Not a bad look though – more attractive than the male breeding plumage, I think. Upon learning about my background, he asked me whether we have Yaks in Germany. Carrion Crows like to think of themselves as very modern birds.

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Birds Germany India 2018 208

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AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Birds Germany godwits shorebirds' Somehow – given our current weather – I can relate. .

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JUNE 20, 2019

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 192

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JUNE 2, 2013

Germany is not really within the species’ breeding range, and there is only one area where the herons have bred continuously and successfully since the 1970′s: Waghäusel, an area of former waste water ponds of a – now closed – nearby sugar plant. Birds Germany herons and egrets Waghäusel'

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APRIL 27, 2023

Yibin is a typical smallish Chinese city (which in China means slightly above 850,000 people in the metro area, which would make it the fifth-biggest city in Germany but does not get it into the top 100 in China). But then, would a lady pheasant be pleased to be described as “large”? What a weird world.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Germany currently has a population of around 500 breeding pairs, which is a significant improvement over the 50 pairs left in the early 1970s. This bird, a migrant from further North or East in Germany, was the first Black Stork I saw around Heidelberg since moving here in the summer of 2008.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Always interesting to see the same species both in Germany (in my parents’ garden) and in Shanghai. Not that easy to spot outside of the breeding season, though relatively quite common. Raptors are relatively rare at Nanhui, so to get a good shot of an Eastern Marsh Harrier in the nice early morning light is a joy.

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2019 Japan Owls China 188

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MARCH 6, 2016

The key to solving the puzzle of Germany’s large white-headed gulls was banding juveniles of all forms in their breeding colonies and the fact that some humans find immense joy in driving around garbage dumps, looking at birds with pricey scopes and trying to decipher tiny codes on plastic or metal rings of various shapes and sizes.

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Kazakhstan Germany Ukraine Asia 113

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JUNE 15, 2024

Black-headed Gulls were also breeding in the wetlands in large numbers, becoming very agitated when a Western Marsh-Harrier quartered low over the reeds. Their breeding mounts in the wetland were removed, probably because things were getting out of control with photographers.

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Sri Lanka South Africa Transported Africa 207

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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.

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Austria Switzerland Europe Geese 124

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MAY 21, 2020

It can still be an entirely opposite end of a continent, but – if you are residing in Europe – the flight can be as short as one (from Germany) to two hours (from UK). Only this time, you do not feel like inhaling the same air circling through the plane on a ten hour flight. Top-5 hotspots.

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Serbia Sanctuary Bosnia Birds 317

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MAY 13, 2022

Please keep that in mind if you ever think that Germany’s only contributions to the world are highways and world wars. Finally, the Yellow Bittern is one of my favorite birds in Singapore, and it is much easier to see here than in its breeding grounds in Shanghai.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

According to Tim Low (in “Where Song began”), “so easy were they to breed that by 1859 they cost less to buy in London than in Sydney.” ” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms. Is it offensive to say that Australian Zebra Finches breed like rabbits?

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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147

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JULY 27, 2024

Non-breeding or female buntings can be quite challenging to ID, which makes them all the more exciting since there might be a few vagrants strewn in there as well – probably not in a vineyard in the middle Rhine valley, but exciting species turn up each year along the coast during migration season (such as on Heligoland ).

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New Zealand Rabbits Adoptable Family 206

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Driving from France or Germany to Greece, you are likely to pass through my hometown of Belgrade and continue south following the E75 through the FYRO Macedonia. Other species of interest include the southernmost breeding population of Greylag Goose in Europe, Goosander (at bigger and deeper Megali Prespa), Hazel Grouse (at Mt.

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Greece Albania Macedonia Europe 176

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JUNE 1, 2024

I noticed that many birds had moved from setting up territories and breeding to feeding chicks, I thought it would be worth sharing some more observations. But since this is easily the place where I go birding most frequently (if you’re allowed to call a stroll around the block birding!),

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Birds Collecting Canada Hunting 213

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This species breeds quite close by in a quarry in the Siebengebirge and I am planning to visit this site on an upcoming weekend as I expect them to have started occupying their nest.

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Falcons Owls Eagles Breeding 201

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JUNE 28, 2015

Birders in Europe mostly see Great Egrets outside their breeding season, when their legs are mostly black with a hue of orange on the upper parts, their bill is yellow and their cere is, too. Until a friend sends you pictures of a very small Great Egret in Germany in winter – with bright pink legs, a black bill and a turquoise cere.

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Asia Europe Germany Breeding 178

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MAY 24, 2016

In fact, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , “The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world – it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.” ” The bird is massive.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Its closest living relatives are the Chinese and the Japanese grosbeak of East Asia” The main difference is that I have seen the hawfinch – but only the hawfinch – in both my parents’ garden in Germany and in Shanghai. Great Cormorants are also very good at just loafing around.

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MAY 19, 2012

Leading scientists, conservationists and aviculturalists from Europe and South-east Asia met at Walsrode in Germany recently to formulate a rescue plan. Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

In July 2013, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources held a meeting in Bremerhaven in Germany, to decide whether to turn the Ross Sea into a marine protected area. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The region is also a major habitat for petrels. And the Mammals.

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APRIL 1, 2012

The Wagbachniederung is reknown for its waterfowl, shorebirds, and good breeding populations of several species that are very localized in Germany. Below is a long, long list of the species I encountered (66, which is a very respectable species count for the middle of March in southern Germany) and the totals for each species.

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JUNE 29, 2024

Eurasian Linnet Red-backed Shrike It was interesting to see that many birds were breeding in the low stone walls forming the terraces of the vineyards, including Blue T**s and Black Redstarts. Some nice sightings of Eurasian Linnet and Red-backed Shrike nearly made up for it though.

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