10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2019
Barn Swallows are pretty much anywhere in the world (I just saw them back in Germany). The Cattle Egret (or Eastern Cattle Egret , to be exact, but that would mess with my alphabetic order) can be seen in farmland around Shanghai. During my last trip to Germany, several people pointed out locations of Common Kingfisher.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
It also used to be a rather common bird in the South of Germany, but the German population has crashed and collapsed (almost?) If it still breeds in Germany at all, which it might do, it is so rare by now that pairs do not get reported to anywhere except to the relevant nature conservation authorities. What on earth?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. Generally, I need to have cleared immigration and/or spent some time in the country actually visiting it. African Darter and Reed Cormorant. Yellow-billed Stork.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). These visits are strictly regulated and the birds are habituated to people, showing no reaction to our presence.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
I could immediately tell them it was an Egyptian Goose – an invasive species in Germany but not at Kruger. Apparently, in some regions where Cattle Egrets do not primarily associate with cattle but with other animals, their name in the local language changes accordingly.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century.
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