10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
All month long we’ll be visiting – in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them. On that unhappy note, perhaps it’s best to get on with the tasting and drink to a better life for eagles in Scotland.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2017
It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how Frank Chapman invented this winter tradition to replace the older and considerably less optimal for birds tradition of the Christmas side hunt. And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens.
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Critter News
APRIL 12, 2010
This complaint is the result of proposed legislation to ban puppy mills in Ireland. They also want an exemption for hunt kennels which do not breed dogs for commercial purposes. Tags: Ireland legislation puppy mills dogs. Legislators are being contacted by people around the world to support the legislation.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2020
But seeing as the month is also bookended by Hogmanay and Burns Night, we’ll gladly take the opportunity to visit– in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whisky was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Nuthatches are garden birds for many people in England and Wales (they are rare in Scotland and don’t occur in Ireland), but they like beech trees, and if you haven’t any beech trees in or near your garden, you are unlikely to see them. However, the best bird of the day I came across when just a couple of miles from home.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2020
But seeing as the month is also bookended by Hogmanay and Burns Night, we’ll gladly take the opportunity to visit– in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them. A Golden Eagle (1916), another painting by Archibald Thornburn.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. First of all they wanted useful species.
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