Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

From Bite Back: Redecorated with paint and oil the opulent houses of Luigi and Ignazio Maramotti in Albinea (Reggio Emilia). Locked the main entrances. Redecorated with paint also the house of the sister Maria Ludovica located in Reggio Emilia.

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Italy Killing Tagged Groups 100

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JUNE 26, 2013

Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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Cambodia Slaughtered Slaughter Cyprus 185

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OCTOBER 5, 2019

10 Beats have been out in 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, Italy and Mexico) and have shared 125 lists to account for 916 birds. Italy is the newest country to feature in our collection of Countries/Territories/SARs/Kingdoms/Principalities and brings this list to 51.

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2019 China Italy Argentina 164

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 9, 2012

VICE went to Italy to play, squeeze, hug, and cuddle some of the most adorable owls in the land! You might recognize one of the owls in the video below. They are all very sweet. Luckily they made a video that we can share with you!

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Owls Italy Animal 100

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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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Greece Malta Croatia Italy 252

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration.

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Bald Eagle Montana Italy Owls 162

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FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The coast of the Mediterranean Sea is used mostly as a wintering ground, with just a handful of breeding colonies between Greece, northern Italy and eastern Spain (and recently through central Europe all the way to Ireland). So there you have it: conservative taxonomy leads to unfortunate common names.

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Europe Spain Italy Ireland 181

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MAY 30, 2015

It even entices those of us who seriously dig the fromage (did I ever tell you about the amazing, heavenly provolone I ate at a rest stop somewhere in Italy? Yes, if you understand Spanish or took the time to Google translate it, this does indeed mean “Half Cheese” It’s intriguing. Oh, but this is a birding blog, sorry.).

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 232

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 6, 2009

They carry USA, Germany, Brazil, England, France, Italy and more. Little Fanaticos has all kinds of team jerseys, so even if USA isn’t your favorite, you will probably be able to find your team. They would make a really cute Halloween costume too, don’t you think? They make shopping and shipping a breeze too!

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Dogs Italy France Brazil 100

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FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Sandy was a fifty-something guy who had immigrated to the Falls from Campobasso, Italy. Once upon a time in Niagara Falls, NY, they were to a friend of mine whose name was Sandonato. He had a heart of gold, you could see it in his eyes.

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Costa Rica Italy Sparrows Birds 178

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Another from the King of Spain dated 30 september 1512 refers to two turkeys which had arrived in Spain from Hispaniola. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 260

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Europe… with such low herp diversity the locals split any sub-population of a species that occurs on either the Iberian Peninsula or Italy as a new species just to make them feel better out themselves, naturally is the continent that rose to the top of my trip list. Either that or having family friends in Germany.

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Salamander Germany Birds Blackbirds 187

Animal Equality

JUNE 26, 2024

From the bustling streets of Brazil to the historic halls of the UK Parliament, Animal Equality is driving change for animals in Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil, India, the US, and the UK. For over a decade, Animal Equality has been on a global mission to end the force-feeding of ducks and geese for foie gras.

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Foie Gras Geese Ducks Italy 52

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MARCH 3, 2020

Danish Carl Christian Tofte , a professional illustrator and a birder, has done most of the Tinamous, Wood-Quail, Rheas, Seriema, all of the raptors, most of the shorebirds, all of the owls, most of the hummingbirds, some of the Jacamars, most of the Aracari, all of the falcons, most of the parakeets and parrots, all of the woodcreepers, all of the (..)

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 250

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To paraphrase Aristotle via Aldo Leopold, one swallow does not a summer make, but zero swallows, that is fall. That at least holds mostly true where I am in eastern upstate New York, where I haven’t personally seen a swallow in several weeks, and the last reports in my home county of Albany are now over a fortnight old.

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2016 Europe New York Africa 264

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Despite being debased and reduced to a mere gastronomic buzzword by American chains of Italian-esque eateries, the offerings of dubious submarine sandwich shops, and bastardized and slapped onto corporate supermarket products labels, the word “Tuscan” can still denote genuine gastronomic excellence in a country of proud regional food traditions.

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2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 264

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Today is Valentine’s Day – which means that at this very moment, countless would-be Romeos and hopeful Casanovas are undoubtedly scurrying around at the eleventh hour trying to find that perfect gift, tracking down the last florist in town not already sold out of roses, or perhaps merely struggling to choose a perfect bottle of wine for tonight’s dinner. (..)

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2016 Abandoning Abandonment Abandon 250

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

So last week I was in Sardinia. Many fine wines were drunk, and many fine meals were eaten. We also looked at some racing cars, which I guess was sort of the point? But of course, also and above all that, I saw birds. The White Wagtails , omnipresent on all my other trips to Europe, were not around this time.

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Goats Montana Europe Hunting 162

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AUGUST 6, 2015

The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. It was only the first in a series of such cargoes. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal.

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Serbia Slaughter Slaughtered Turtles 270

Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Tags: natural disaster animal rescue italy earthquake.

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Italy Animal Rescue Tagged 100

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MARCH 29, 2019

After three visits to southern Italy, followed by a lone excursion to Belgium, we’ll head back south to end our month-long “Grand Tour” of falconry-themed wine and ales in Portugal.

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2016 Portugal Belgium Falcons 187

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APRIL 26, 2024

Cyprus Wheatears are the easiest to find of the three endemic birds that occur on Cyprus Black Francolins once bred in Portugal, Spain and Italy, all countries from which this handsome little game bird has long been lost.

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Cyprus Breeders Falcons Hunters 246

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JUNE 9, 2024

The population of Egyptian Vultures in Italy is nearing extinction, with fewer than 10 pairs, and numbers are also going down in the Balkans, now with fewer than 70 pairs. The most recent estimates suggest that some 1,500 pairs breed in Spain. That’s about half of the entire European breeding population.

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2004 Spain Italy Agenda 289

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.

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Hungary Fox Norway Eggs 235

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JULY 21, 2014

There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 257

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JANUARY 19, 2024

A Spanish Ibex photographed in Spain’s Sierra de Grazelema Natural Park According to my mammal guide, there are two species of chamois in Europe, the Pyrenean Chamois (which also occurs in Central Italy), and the Alpine Chamois.

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Fur Boars Deer Estonia 246

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The remainder of the recipe is relies on grapes grown in the High Valley AVA on the eastern side of the lake and includes the Rhône varietals Syrah (12%), Mourvèdre (4%), and Petite Sirah (4%), as well as Arneis (2%), a grape from Italy’s Piedmont region more often used in white wine production.

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2017 Nevada California Italy 229

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JULY 3, 2020

This early weathercock once graced the church of Santi Faustino e Giovita in Brescia, Italy, but now resides at the Museo di Santa Giulia in the same city. The Gallo di Ramperto, the oldest extant weathervane in the world in the shape of a rooster, dating to the ninth century CE.

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New York Belgium Farming Fowl 213

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MAY 2, 2012

Along with her team (including her lover Jenny Sparks, the living Spirit of the Twentieth Century) she destroyed an alternate Italy to prevent the invasion of her world and took over the United States in order to run it better than Congress. This is not comic heroism as you remember it.

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DC Phoenix Birds Falcons 264

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009). The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 197

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JANUARY 4, 2020

35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. The life list was pumped a further 27 sp up to 3953.

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2019 Chile Texas Sanctuary 241

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MARCH 15, 2019

The Gyrfalcon ( Falco rusticolus ), the largest falcon in the world, is as sought after by falconers as it is by birders – and for many of the same reasons: namely, the rarity with which these imposing raptors of the Arctic visit us residing in more temperate climes.

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2016 Iceland Falcons Egypt 100

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JANUARY 8, 2017

My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. Scopoli’s Shearwater , Tuscany, Italy. Great Spotted Cuckoo , Tuscany, Italy. Northern Gannet , Liguria coast, Italy.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 124

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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

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

And while most of these introduction attempts failed, the species has now become firmly established as a “countable” species in several areas of France and Italy, and even Spain so far as I was able to find out. Celebrated awesomeness: Trips Europe invasive species Italy'

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Italy Europe France Spain 237

AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Between 2023 and 2024, Animal Equality investigators documented conditions inside a pig slaughterhouse in Cremona, Italy. This facility–owned by a company called Belli–slaughters thousands of pigs each year. Veterinarian Enrico Moriconi, who reviewed the footage… Source

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Pigs Investigation Slaughter Slaughtered 123

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MARCH 1, 2019

Whatever they may be, the image makes a handsome label for this week’s wine, the 2015 Siir from San Martino, a vineyard in the Aglianico del Vulture region of Basilicata in Italy. Aglianico vines are still grown in southern Italy today, particularly in area around Mount Vulture, an extinct volcano in Basilicata.

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