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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Is this the same individual that tracked south through Britain and France in Autumn 2009? Irene didn’t bring much in the way of passerines though a single Yellow Warbler cheered up the French briefly by allowing itself to be trapped in a reedbed in France on 30th August.

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JUNE 11, 2021

In France, the proverb is “ Quand il pleut à la Saint-Médard, il pleut quarante jours plus tard ” which is more or less equivalent to the traditional English saying: St Swithin’s day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain. The earliest parts of the church date to the Anglo-Saxon era. Redouté, 7 vols. 1800 – 1819).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Everything is fair game to gulls, as shown in this vintage advertisement for Paillette, a brewery in Normandy, France. Summer may be over, but beachgoers around the world know to keep an eye on anything edible or drinkable they may be enjoying at the beach – including their beers.

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APRIL 1, 2022

The 2018 Paraduxx is made mostly from Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller contributions from Zinfandel, Petit Verdot, Petite Sirah, Syrah, and Cabernet Franc. I saw a few just last month, so it was nice to be able to pop open this bottle to celebrate the return of this fine-looking bird with a fine wine.

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MAY 10, 2013

The comprehension – or rather revelation – came this January during a trip to southern France’s Camargue where Greater Flamingos can be considered a part of the landscape. Below, you can see a picture of a Greater flamingo in flight, taken at France’s Camargue this January. Of course not!

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Below, Common Cranes soar over Chateau Chenonceau in France. The result appears to be a chance to birdwatch as you never have before—namely, from the perspective of fellow birds. How cool is that? Above, Snow Geese approach the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Both images by John Downer Productions and courtesy of PBS/Nature.

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MAY 13, 2022

But we do give the tough, barnyard fowl its due on occasion, most notably in these past posts discussing the chicken as a national symbol of France and its appearance on weathervanes. There’s not nearly as much symbolism to delve into with the playful gallery of poultry portraits that adorns Pluck Pluck Pluck.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

During my vacation with friends close to Cannes in southern France, my priority was of course to catch up and spend some quality time with my friend group from university. Apart from my birding trip to the Coussouls de Crau, I couldn’t stop birding when I was outside.

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JUNE 2, 2022

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was known for his hunting forays into this forest, only months prior to his assassination during a 1934 state visit to France. Photo by Surcin Municipality. During WWII, the forest was used as a base of the local Partisan squad (the communist resistance), hiding in subterranean shelters.

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APRIL 16, 2021

According to legend, Vinus the heron frequented the clay and limestone hills of the Hérault Valley in the Languedoc region of France, where he preferred dining on grapes grown on the hillside to fish fetched from the river.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France. eBird admits that the black chin of the Black-chinned Yuhina is “not very noticeable” But it is a cute bird.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Though its origins aren’t known with great certainty, it likely comes from France, having been long documented in the Rhône valley. The wine spends four months aging in French and American oak barriques, from which it emerges with an aroma of dark berries and a hint of baking spice.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Most of them based in a single attractive, historic, and easily walkable city or town, my tours, under VENT’s Birds, Nature, and Culture rubric, always see plenty of birds: hoopoes and rollers in France, Great Bustards and bean geese in Germany, Fulvous Owls and Black-capped Swallows in Guatemala are just a few examples.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2023

Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

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MAY 11, 2013

Make sure to check back all Pink Bird Weekend long as we delve into every possible pulchritudinous pink bird we can think of… Birds courtship flamingos France Pink Bird Weekend' Of course not!

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JANUARY 15, 2013

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. .” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis , is the second largest fish in its range, which covers much of Europe and parts of West Asia.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

From France he wrote to his daughter expressing his displeasure: For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. Benjamin Franklin was famously not happy about the decision to use the Bald Eagle as a symbol of the United States (he preferred the Wild Turkey ).

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JULY 20, 2009

This is a good thing. We've been overfishing the bluefish tuna to near-extinction along with many other species. I used to work for a seafood company and my current work still brings me in contact with the industry. Greedy, anti-government, and anti-regulation monstrosities.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2013

Birding Birds Destinations France La Reserve Ornithologique du Teich wildlife rehabilitation' From the middle of the melee a man glared up at us, as if he suspected we were secretly rooting for Spain. “ I cried, holding up my hands. We’re just here for the oiseaux!”.

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MARCH 29, 2011

The Crossbill Guide Foundation is a publishing NGO, founded by Dirk Hilbers, and they currently have 10 Crossbill Guides for great European birding/nature areas, including the Finnish Lapland, Hungary’s Hortobagy, France’s Loire Valley and the Biebrza Marshes in Poland. Wholeness, interconnectedness, wonder, beauty.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

Because of all the places it could have called its winter home, it chose the Rhine separating Huningue and Weil am Rhein, the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany. I know birders who have done this, and it is an exercise in boredom.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For example, the main article states that “At Lac de Grand Lieu, W France, birds commute 2–38 km between colony and feeding territories.” (I know, easy to say for a German after having lost a couple of world wars, but still true). The HBW also has some interesting details about the Grey Heron.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).

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JUNE 21, 2019

This corner of southwest France is best known for its rich, dark reds, as well as Sauternes, the sweet, white wine produced from grapes affected by noble rot. The estate of Château de Colombe is in the village of Sainte-Colombe, a name it shares with many other places throughout France.

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MARCH 25, 2011

The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

Every Song Thrush is French, even those that have never been to France. If you hear a bird singing in Europe and you momentarily misidentify it as a House Wren it is actually a Chaffinch. Yes, every single time. singing Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs 4. I present the image below as evidence. snail-bashing Song Thrush Turdus philomelos 5.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. In the IUCN Red List, it is listed as vulnerable because of the high mortality of nestlings that become victims to rats and of adults that end up as a fishery bycatch. But, the Yelkouan Shearwater is also a lifer for me!

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

The plot in 1943 to drop the birds into German-occupied France is revealed in newly declassified MI5 files released by the National Archives. Interesting story out of the BBC. British spy chiefs drew up secret plans to use pigeons to spread false rumours about the impending D-Day landings.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2012

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks flaunted their gaudy colors like topless sunbathers on a beach in the south of France. The wrack-line outside the fort held White-rumped and Pectoral Sandpipers as well as the more common shorebirds and an exhausted Sora Rail. We added a few new warblers to the list including Cerulean and Wilson’s Warblers.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

led to folk traditions of stork protection have managed to retain at least a fragment of their breeding White Stork populations in the face of industrialization, while areas that were more indifferent (like western France) are now storkless. And overall, areas where good stork P.R. A White Stork making itself popular in a newly-tilled garden.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

France began circulating a draft resolution on Monday that would temporarily authorize an additional 3,085 troops and police officers for the peacekeeping mission in the Congo to protect civilians in the eastern part of the country. The rebels insist the gorillas are safe. “We We are protecting them,” said Babu Amani, a rebel spokesman.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

The two-month operation involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range countries (China, India, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam) and was coordinated by INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Program at its headquarters in Lyon, France.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

Corey will remain local, birding in Queens and rooting for France. I and my family will endeavor to stay calm on the road to central Ohio, where we’ll be spending the weekend with more family. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. The campaign also used tactics such as false allegations of paedophilia against managers of the supply companies, and posting sanitary towels to their homes saying the blood was contaminated with the AIDS virus.

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