Experiments Family Spain 
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
My only wolf sightings have been in Spain, in December, and at great range. It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2019
Following the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in Portugal and Spain after Islamic conquest in the 8 th century, falconry would only became a more firmly fixed Iberian tradition in the hands of the Umayyad rulers of Al-Andalus. A falconry scene from the Severa Bible, a Sephardic bible from early 14th-century Spain.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. The Tramuntanas – Spain. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. The E-Birders – Cornell, USA.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2024
They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2019
It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. Once you’ve been around the birding block a few years, your appreciation for the lifer experience deepens greatly. Which is why we all eventually turn to the one way to combine old-birder experience with new-birder opportunities: travel.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2022
So I was excited to finally get to take a trip to Spain and the Middle East that we had originally planned… for the ill-fated month of March, 2020. A surplus of quality birding experiences kept me from making my reports, which is embarrassing. I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families.
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