10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard. At the time we were looking, without success, for White-backed Woodpeckers.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
Barnacle geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic, while the nearest wintering areas also lie along the northern coasts of Europe: the Netherlands and the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden). we will kill it!”, Here in Serbia, in the south of the continent, this species is a proper rarity.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2024
Rather more are killed in collisions with cars. And there are still some mammals I’d really like to see, such as the Russian flying squirrel that can be found in Finland and Estonia, or the mysterious Pyrenean Desman, which looks like a shrew but is more closely related to the Mole. However, top of my wanted list is a European Lynx.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2023
She accompanies Luke on his Barn Owl counting, a heartening and optimistic chore now that British farmers have learned to prefer owls, as a pest control method, to strychnine, which kills rats but also the owls that feed on them.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Bramblings in Finland – though not actually being parasitized by cuckoos – nevertheless rejected the vast majority of non-matching eggs in a study – they thus seem well-prepared for a potential future cuckoo invasion. Maybe there is some justice in this world after all. The White-browed Thrush is not a lot more attractive.
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