10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. But the shocking voice that made the difference and prevented the full protection of elephants was even less expected than the WWF’s stance – the EU vote. And it gave me a hope.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 242

Critter News

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Dangers include fishermen deliberately blinding the animals to protect fishing equipment. The Archelon rescue centre in Greece previously looking after Homer believes this is what happened to him. Fishermen in Greece deliberately blinding turtles? Tags: UK greece animal rescue turtles.

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Turtles Greece Rescue Raised 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

I bought my first 20 years ago from some Russian on the seashore in Greece, but have not used it much because of rather dark images (I even took it to India with me – and didn’t use it even once). And this year I carried it to Greece twice, both by plane and by car. This is not my first spotting scope.

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Greece Battery Serbia India 205

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2019

The year 2018 started with the rare Lesser White-fronted Goose , closely followed by Red-breasted Goose , Red-crested Pochard and Greater Flamingo , all at the incredible Lake Kerkini National Park in northern Greece: “Seeing a parked 4×4 and a national park biologist Kostas Papadopoulos scoping the flats… What is he looking at?

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2018 Serbia Greece Falcons 159

10,000 Birds

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!) There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

I was driving along the legendary eastern levee of the Kerkini Lake in northern Greece ( Google Map ) and, listening to the first Golden Oriole flute, was slowly getting closer to a wooded Mt. And unlike the protection of cormorants, which was perceived as a problem, protection of pelicans was welcomed by the local communities.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and landed in a pine tree. The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species.

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Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

I dipped it once before and only this autumn found them in Greece. The Common Pochard is not just a scarce breeding bird, but the second most numerous wintering duck in Serbia and it will be a hard battle to protect it against the strong hunting lobby. Lesser White-fronted Goose by Ingar Oien. The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List).

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Serbia Montenegro Greece Bulgaria 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

While there is a lot left to be done when it comes to research and nature protection in many tropical countries, there are not that many jobs in that line of work, and ecotourism seem to be the industry of choice. Greece (346 / 411 – just to give you a clue, the Greek-published checklist I have has 449 species). Namibia (595 / 690).

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

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. The number breeding in Europe is almost certainly much reduced from what it was a century ago, but in Spain the birds are now valued and protected.

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Falcons Spain Europe South Africa 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In 2010, a joint expedition by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and the Sudanese Wildlife Society (SWS) found a further 17 electrocuted Egyptian Vultures. Up to now there have been almost 80 confirmed electrocuted Egyptian Vultures in that area.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 252

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), YOC was the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ Young Ornithologists’ Club. Number 57, Great Northern?

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Mauritius Egypt Cyprus Collecting 186

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 246