10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2015

I was still telling the truth when I mentioned the four subspecies, species, taxa, forms, you name it, of the Great Egret: modesta (Asia), alba (Europe, Asia), egretta (Americas) and melanorhynchos (Africa). This is particularly interesting for birders in North America and Europe (duh!), Easy: legs, bill, size.

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North America Europe America Asia 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

Common Merganser female by John Borg There are six living species of mergansers, three of which are commonly spotted in North America: The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) ranges widely throughout the northern hemisphere. Anyway, the hoodie is the only merganser endemic to North America. Notice the sawbill?

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North America Thailand Russia Ducks 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

Newts can be found in Asia, Europe, and North America. The most familiar newt in eastern North America, where I live, is the Red Eft , which is the juvenile form of the Red-spotted Newt Notophthalmus viridescens , which is in the above image.

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Salamander Pythons North America Europe 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2020

Not far from its capital Lisbon lies Cabo de Roca, the westernmost point in mainland Europe. Beyond that is the entire expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching some six-hundred leagues west to Newfoundland — and even further to the mainland shores of North America.

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2015 Portugal France Europe 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?

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North America Science America Europe 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

They were once a widespread and diverse group, however, with many fossils known from what are now North America and Europe. Mousebirds are social fruit-eaters that dangle precariously at odd angles in tight clumps, feet spread wide and long tails often splayed. The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Kenya Parrots Africa North America 217

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 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. Contradicting this relentless shooting were efforts to establish feral populations in many regions of Europe, both within and outside its natural range.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 197

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. Oystercatchers are unquestionably cool birds, and, even in North America, a rare treat. I, of course, love a good river delta. I couldn’t take much advantage of it on our first, two-week stay.

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Spain Mexico Europe North America 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In the end, Chandler comes very near his goal of creating “a book for anyone in Europe or North America who wants to know more about the Barn Owl.” ” And if it looks a bit like a supermodel among your practical Petersons and stolid travel guides, well, couldn’t your joint use a bit of classing up?

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Barn Owls Owls North America Europe 228

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) photos by Larry Jordan (click to enlarge) The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser americanus ) or Goosander ( Mergus merganser merganser ) as it’s known in Europe, is a large, cold-hardy, fish-eating duck that nests worldwide near large lakes and rivers in northern forested habitats 1.

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Jordan North America Abandon Abandoning 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

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Africa Wolves Goats Sheep 221

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Of course such a clear case of misjudgement would never have happened here in the Olde Europe. Here in Europe, we have the dull green and challenging leaf warblers of the genus Phylloscopus. You in North America have them, too with the Arctic Warbler being a regular Alaskan resident.

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Hawaii Albatross Europe North America 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. Of the 300 hummingbird species across the globe, North America only sees fewer than two dozen of them. Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S. Rufous hummingbird, Photo © Robin L.

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Texas Alaska North America America 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera. Germany, like most of Europe and very much unlike North America, is home to only one species of squirrel.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

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. But now that we do have, and while we may or rather should wish we had not, we might as well roll with the punches and accept that we have.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Costa Rica 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As I mentioned last week, my wife, son, and daughter-in-law spent much of the month of October in Europe. But when it comes to waterfowl, the non-reproductive season offers some great opportunities in central Europe, as many species move south from their Arctic breeding grounds.

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Austria Switzerland Europe Geese 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

The Black-headed Gull , Larus ridibunus, is similar in many ways to Bonaparte’s Gull , Larus philadelphia of North America. They are summer visitors to much of northern Europe, wintering in the Mediterranean with resident populations favouring western Europe.

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Philadelphia Russia Europe North America 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

But I found myself wondering things like: If Common Ringed Plovers migrate from here through Europe, and Semipalmated through North America, what happens to the different type of offspring from a single mixed brood? Do the Common Ringed type migrate through Europe and the Semipalmated head south?

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Iceland Europe Panama North America 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

There is actually quite the overlapping avifauna between North America and Europe. And while neither of us have ever birded in either place we have both seen some birds that occur in ol’ Blighty and the Emerald Isle. In fact, you have to!

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Ireland North America Europe America 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

Anas strepera is a common and widespread duck, breeding across northern Europe and Asia, as well as central North America. They are not in enough habitat types to be considered one of the usual waterfowl though I am used to seeing them.

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United States North America Jamaica Asia 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

During the Pleistocene, Dholes were found across the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, sharing their space with sabre-toothed cats. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. If they can survive next to such neigbours, how come they are endangered?

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 252

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. This is where they got their name. According to R.D. Which would be weird.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 258

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. For many North American bird enthusiasts, Common Ringed Plover ‘s are a bird they rarely, if ever, get to see. Here they are a common breeding bird, one of our two species that migrate from here to Europe and then south.

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Eggs North America Breeding Europe 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This month we were able to go to Europe again, for our first real vacation in a few years. One of the groups that doesn’t seem to become any less common in fall is the T**s, known in North America as Chickadees and their relatives. Some of my readers may recall that my wife and I went to Spain a few months ago.

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Switzerland Austria Europe Spain 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K. klak-klak, keeear!,

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Mexico America North America Falcons 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

I mention all of this because we in North America, especially the southern part of North America, have storks too. They are, after all, the feathered bearers of actual children if the old stories are to be believed, and their shadow lies long over birder and non-birder alike.

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Pedigree North America South Carolina Brazil 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2019

Anyone in North America might know them as Cosmopolitan Butterfly. Any individuals found in Britain are immigrants or progeny of emigrants from Europe and Africa and thus receive exalted status. The Aristocrat group is not a recognised classification group. For that we turn to the Nymphalidae.

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Ireland South America North America 2009 162

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 Russia 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Many of us in North America are facing the imminent departure of “our” hummingbirds for the next few months, though across the Gulf Coastal Plain, a few western hummingbirds are staking out winter homes, and hardy Anna’s Hummingbirds will do just fine along the Pacific Coast and in Arizona all winter long.

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Family Ecuador Costa Rica United States 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

These two shorebirds are exceedingly common in western Europe. But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America. So it is always a joy when I can finally put one of those birds on my current digital list. And Oystercatchers are very amusing birds. I think all Swifts are cool.

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Austria Spain 2019 Germany 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

. - Delete these 6 letters, leaving 4 letters remaining. - Rearrange these 4 remaining letters and you will end up with a rare avian visitor to North America. From the pictures in the guides I have from Europe and Asia, it looks pretty cute. What is the name of this beverage? Extra Credit: Here is a story.

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2011 North America Asia Europe 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. I particularly like the nutshell image and silhouette pages, the latter reminiscent of The Shorebird Book.

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North America El Salvador America Nicaragua 214

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 264

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

This species is still uncommon in the Balkans and despite the recent spread, Kalamas is the most reliable site for it in Greece (and this made my only second ever observation of them in Europe). Further north, I reach the Kestrini River and turn left. The first good bird was one Grey Plover (in North America a.k.a.

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Greece Dogs Pelicans Cattle 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2017

But while monarchs are among the most charismatic and well-studied of lepidopteran migrants, rather less attention is paid to the fact that North America is home to other migrating butterflies. The American snout periodically moves through Texas and Mexico in huge numbers.

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North America Colorado Texas New York 106

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2011

As a result of the gradual westward expansion across Europe from it’s origins on the Black Sea coast a number of ringing schemes have been operating allowing birders to trace the origins of many of the individuals that turn up in Britain.

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Poland 2009 France Europe 157