10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2014

Its range extends well beyond our shores through Europe and beyond. My normal experience of them is brief as they are always moving and they have always resisted my attempts to portray them by means of millions of tiny dots. In Japan, it is represented by the A.c. japonicus race. Here in Britain, we have the A.c. rosaceus form.

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Japan Collecting Europe Family 246

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. Our guides were researchers from Callisto, patient and always smiling Yannis Tsanakis (above) and Maria Petridou with her infectious laugh and stories of her Sun Bear and Jaguar research experiences. Not at all.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 271

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AUGUST 20, 2015

I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Here where I live – in one of the bird-richest corners of Europe, but I miss the species diversity of my yester years. Map by BirdLife International. I am talking 600 or 700+ bird species.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Grant McCreary of The Birder’s Library , who shared the experience with me, probably has pretty much the same problem. Like many rails they often show up in unexpected places, even rarely being found as vagrants in western Europe! What do you do with hundreds of picture of Purple Gallinules ?

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United States Florida South America Europe 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Now, it is much easier for me to achieve first-time sightings of species in Europe than it is in Mexico, at this point of the game. You can get a sense of the breadth of my European birding experience by how many of my lifers have the word “Common” in their names. I, of course, love a good river delta.

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Spain Mexico Europe North America 231

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In the next year I visited the British Birdfair for the first time, which turned out to be the experience that changed my life. Kerkini is one of the most important wintering areas throughout Europe. In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms.

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Greece Wildlife Boars Otters 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. impressive for Central Europe. impressive for Central Europe. I am still trying to sort out my impressions and memories.

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 299

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2024

Instead, much of central and southern Iberia experiences an intense hot and dry season, from June to September, and a wet season. The Victorian naturalist Abel Chapman, describing Doñana, called it a little piece of Africa in Europe. This makes the idea of spring-summer-autumn-winter redundant.

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Africa Spain Europe Breeding 287

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lion – much easier to see than an Aardvark In contrast to East Africa, encounters with mammals while out birding in Europe are relatively few. Over the years, though, I have enjoyed a number of memorable mammal sightings in Europe. Otters may be widespread in Europe, but they are usually elusive and difficult to see.

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2012

After all, North America has no native hedgehogs and seeing something so outside of our normal experience was pretty exciting, even if the little guy quickly headed for cover and refused to show itself for Clay Taylor, who came upon the scene a minute too late. New Zealand has a host of hedgehogs but they are introduced.

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Hedgehogs Hungary Opossums North America 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. Birding city birds Europe owls Serbia' And the citizens of Kikinda are justly proud of it. Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute. They are now moving from one tree to another. Once perched, it is easy. Photos (c) Sasa Preradovic.

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Serbia Owls Rodents India 247

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Bird Uganda Safaris is one of the leading ground handler of the International birding companies in the USA, Australia, South American and Europe. Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well.

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Uganda Rwanda Wildlife Reserve Kenya 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern, central, and eastern Europe and across Asia as far east as Japan and Korea. We visited Hortobágy National Park, the Bükk Hills and places in between.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Europe Japan 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2024

I’m not sure if this is exclusively my limited experience, let me know! 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). I knew that this species had been seen here two weeks earlier, but did not expect to see it at all.

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Germany Birds Parrots Europe 239

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MAY 28, 2015

After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. For example, the White-headed Duck is nowadays a rarity in Europe (okay, excluding Spain, I know… that Spain …), but until some 50 years ago, it used to breed in Serbia. They got the message right.

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Serbia Spain Birds Hungary 268

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2011

A type of birding experience that I greatly enjoy is one of those moments where I’ve come across a simply huge number of birds. As I mined my old birding photos, I recalled one such experience at the Palekhori-Kambi Dam in the eastern part of the Troodos mountain range of Cyprus.

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Cyprus 2008 Europe Experience 162

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

It is not a concept for a total beginner, more of a reminder to someone with some experience. Having personal experience with some of those illustrations used in the field, in Europe and in Africa (and remembering them, from mousebirds to orioles, etc.),

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Botswana Africa Birds Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. According to R.D.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s an example: born and bred in Europe, I do not know much about the tropics, especially the bird-rich New World tropics. And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. This field guide leaves me nothing short of impressed.

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Costa Rica Cougars Madagascar Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

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. Judging by my experiences with the species, the Black-tailed Godwit’s behaviour is restricted to two aspects.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

The research, although widely accepted, was greeted with some skepticism early on (Sutton 1966), and eventually followup attempts to replicate his research and experiments near Clyde River Nunavut by Richard Schnell found that the data could not have been have been collected as Smith’s publications had indicated.

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Iceland Europe Panama North America 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

I do try to experience and learn as much as I can on every trip and my week in Hungary was no exception. If you hear a bird singing in Europe and you momentarily misidentify it as a House Wren it is actually a Chaffinch. It is the insensible birder who doesn’t learn something on each and every birding outing.

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Hungary France Woodpeckers Europe 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

My last blog has created quite a discussion among the readers, mostly from US, but also southern and eastern Africa and Europe (apologies if I forgot some region). I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted.

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Greece Zambia Birds Abandonment 247

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Next time I will try my local patch of Beljarica backwaters in Belgrade and check how much different the NL experience is. With just about every other bird I had one of those “wow” moments. A Little Stint awaited me there this morning.

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Chile Argentina Serbia Raised 306

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Its founder, Chris Vlachos, has extensive experience and background in wildlife photography, starting his career more than 20 years ago. It also currently works with two other bird and mammal hides in Europe. Furthermore, the company has two boat-hides, at the most popular lakes of Greece.

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Wildlife Greece Mammals Reptiles 224

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OCTOBER 13, 2012

Great Reed Warblers breed across huge chunks of Europe and Asia and winter across large swaths of southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Many thanks to Swarovski Optik for inviting me along and letting me experience both some awesome new optics and the natural wonders of the wonderful country of Hungary. ……….

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Hungary Asia Europe Africa 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear. But easy ain’t all.

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Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2012

Eurasian Wrynecks are found breeding across the temperate zones of Europe and Asia. Many thanks to Swarovski Optik for inviting me along and letting me experience both some awesome new optics and the natural wonders of the wonderful country of Hungary. ••• a. They migrate to warmer climes in Africa and south Asia to winter.

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Hungary Asia Woodpeckers Africa 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis , is the second largest fish in its range, which covers much of Europe and parts of West Asia. In parts of Western Europe, it is considered to be “exotic” because it has been introduced, possibly by anglers, in lakes and rivers in France and the Iberian Peninsula. Catfish in the range of 1.0

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Fish Whaling Whales France 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. Insider Tip: If you want to experience a fall migration in this area of Texas, Rockport-Fulton is having its 30 th anniversary HummerBird Celebration from September 13-16 this year. Maybe I’ll see you there!

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Texas Alaska North America America 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Sure, their field guide, The Collins Guide , claims six species but two, the Corsican Nuthatch and the Algerian Nuthatch , have extremely limited ranges and one of those two isn’t actually found in Europe. I am fortunate in that I have encountered Eurasian Nuthatches on eleven occasions in three countries on my various trips to Europe.

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Hungary Europe Portugal Georgia 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2021

A Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler made an early experience. I am not sure whether a jay from Europe (with its lack of white face) would be discriminated against if showing up at Laifengshan. Even though this is no challenge at all, of course. So, what was there to see? Always nice to see. Possible, I guess.

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China Birds Zebras Germany 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is quite a sight to experience hundreds of Abdim’s Stork dropping out of the skies from seemingly thin air, to gorge on burnt or fleeing insects and rodents. It breeds on chimneys, roofs, buildings and trees throughout Europe, parts of Asia and even North Africa.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 250

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JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. Habitat destruction, hunting and disturbance are further factors affecting the population.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 232

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The composer returned to France at age forty-two in 1914 as an ambulance wagon driver in the First World War, a harrowing experience in which Vaughan Williams lost many friends, as well as having to endure the din of constant gunfire that contributed to deafness in his old age. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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2017 France Chicago Collecting 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

The sight, the sound and the smell, coupled with the sheer spectacle of seeing so many birds at once, makes viewing a big seabird colony an avian experience that can’t be compared with any other. Here in the British Isles we are lucky enough to have some of the largest and most important seabird colonies in Europe.

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Puffins Eggs Fish Culling 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I have just returned from Costa Rica, the country about which I knew very little, despite it coming under my radar all the way back in 1999 when the “Africa – Birds & Birding” magazine published some of John Graham’s experiences from his visit in 1993. times more than Europe (when the vagrants are excluded). to great birding.

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Costa Rica San Jose Serbia Europe 203