10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

My most recent experience with a Darvic-ringed gull was in Andalucia last month, when I photographed the Lesser Black-backed Gull in my photograph ( above ) on the Playa de Zahora (Zahora beach, close to Cape Trafalgar). There was one further sighting in 2023 at Vertedero R. los Ruices on 3 October.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2014

It was actually logistically easier for me to stay away from Gibraltar itself which, as a British Crown Colony with constrained geography, a slowish, passport-controlled border with Spain and relatively limited flight connections, has its limitations. Trips hawkwatch raptors Spain' They provided my ideal accommodation.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Meanwhile, away to the west in southern Spain, there’s another reintroduction project that is trying to establish a permanent, stable and self-sufficient colony in the area of La Janda, on the Atlantic coast near Cadiz.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. My Swarovski ATS 80 HD , in action on a wet day in North Norfolk, August 2022 (watching Bee-eaters) Unlike many spotting scopes, it was never granted the luxury of a zip-on cover.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Taking Amy birding is an extremely rewarding experience, as she seems to know the calls of every bird species that exists. Early on in my experience with the group, my church work took me to Veracruz, a tropical city on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and I got to visit a mangrove forest near that city with Luis.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor. It is also a bit misleading.

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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. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

According to some sources, when the so-called Pilgrims settled in for the First Thanksgiving Dinner with the local Native Americans, in 1620, they dined on Turkey, and this Turkey came from the Old World, from stock that was originally brought to Spain by Columbus. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. According to R.D.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2013

Just south of Port of Spain on the west coast of Trinidad, the Caroni Swamp is easily accessible and well serviced by tour companies that will take you out into the mangroves safely and efficiently. What’s not to like about big, bright red, big-beaked, birds? Nothing, that’s what. But it wasn’t always this way.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

Teams were composed of experience birders in their respective countries, but levels of expertise among birders varied from those with plenty of experience in the Neotropics, including some of the authors of the book “The Birds of Peru” to those for whom coming to Peru was their first time in Latin America. Photo: Peru Birding Rally.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

The walk to this evocative riparian grotto is actually rather short, but the experience feels akin to a ritual to anyone who has long anticipated dropping in on the diablotin. But no trip to Asa Wright Nature Centre is complete without the pilgrimage to Dunston Cave, home of the infamous Oilbirds.

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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. In Europe, Lesser Kestrels are birds of the Mediterranean zone, nesting mainly in Spain and Portugal, southern France, Sardinia, the Balkans and parts of Greece.

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Falcons Spain Europe 2012 181

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.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

After weeks of preparation (and not writing many 10,000 Bird posts), my wife and I are finally in Spain. Algeciras, Spain, to be specific — right around the bay from Gibraltar. Our trip to southern Spain is a work trip, so it was a week until I was able to get out and bird in form. Black Kite. Go if you possibly can.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

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 six international teams were as follows: The Zululanders – South Africa. The E-Birders – Cornell, USA. The Ararajubas – Brazil.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

We started out as a team with enthusiasm and knowledge, but little experience in book-making. Take these large savannah-like areas in Extremadura, Spain, for example (the Dehesas). As for the books, that is a different matter. do you have another job besides the Crossbill Guides? Does this sound vague?

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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. It’s a good thing that I can access some 300+ michoacano birds! But, still.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Birders from Western Europe will surely note, upon seeing Black-eared Wheatear here, the difference between this Eastern race and the Western race that they may have seen in Spain or France. As an aside, did you know that the name “wheatear&# has nothing to do with Wheat? Corey Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:52 pm Great post, Dan.

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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. A month later I had the chance to watch these impressive birds again, fishing off Cape Trafalgar in southern Spain.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. In subsequent experiments, Heinrich confirmed that group interests could drive what an individual raven decides to do.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2012

I am heading towards the end of a two week family break in Andalusia, Spain as I write this and last week we jumped in the hire car and headed to a Spanish Town called Ronda for a day trip. There is beauty in these places but sometimes I have to look hard to find it.

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10,000 Birds

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. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Their journey between the Arctic and Africa takes them from here, across Greenland and the North Atlantic, onto Great Britain and then south through France, Spain, across the Mediterranean and down into Sub-saharan Africa. In my experience here, the Wheatear arrive at the end of May to early June and quickly establish territories.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

Alba wagtails range widely and commonly from Greenland and Spain towards the east, far and wide, to the mighty river Yenisei in Siberia. 2 – most birders have very limited experience with the variation of alba and how to distinguish this individual variation from taxonomic difference. This has two consequences.

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