10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike.

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Birds Eggs Breeders McDonalds 130

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

The Rose-ringed Parakeet’s European (=feral) range is surprisingly coherent for an introduced bird that is dependent on large metropolitan areas, and the species occurs in very decent numbers from UK’s London throughout the Netherland’s large cities all the way up along the Rhine to Germany’s Heidelberg.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Costa Rica 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Barn Swallows and Sand and House Martins left us in September, together with most heron species. This timing suites Britain and Netherlands well, I suppose, but Europe is somewhat larger than that.). White Storks left us in August and, by the end of the month, European Bee-eaters followed their example.

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Serbia Europe Netherlands Eagles 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

And some distinctive-looking species, like Surfbird and Buff-breasted Sandpiper are placed in genera by themselves. Black-tailed Godwit ( Limosa limosa ) in the Netherlands cc-by Frank Vassen Sandpipers The birds known as peeps, stints, knots, turnstones (which were once awarded their own family!),

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Family North America Netherlands New Zealand 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Brown-throated Parakeet is a pretty common species across much of Central American and northern South America, true, but Aruba, just like the other two islands that make up the Netherlands Antilles, has its very own endemic subspecies, arubensis. Is it it’s own species?

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South America Netherlands America Sparrows 169

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). Here in Serbia, in the south of the continent, this species is a proper rarity.

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Geese Serbia Ukraine Estonia 149

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2023

stejnegeri ), and thus for now was just regarded as an “ Eastern Stonechat ” (both species lumped). A few days after I left Heligoland a month earlier, a stonechat was observed that could only be identified as Siberian ( Saxicola maurus ) or Amur/ Stejneger’s ( S. maurus and S.

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Birds Groups Ducks Rights 235

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the British Trust for Ornithology’s BirdFacts website, “Although a small number of vagrant Red-breasted Geese from the declining arctic Siberian breeding population winter in Britain each year, the species is popular in wildfowl collections and many birds are of captive origin. That was in October 1991.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Ukraine 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Birds are famous for manipulating brood size (in some species) in response to likely availability of food, and this ability has been at the center of major debates in biology over the level at which natural selection works. The birds used in this study were Zebra Finches reared and housed at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Killing Zebras Netherlands Birds 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By Peter Penning Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and Portugal (holidays). Although work distracts him regularly from the observation of birds, he has managed to see a great many species regardless.

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Uganda Netherlands Monkeys Portugal 229

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Luca recently completed his BSc in the Netherlands and currently spends his time working (and birding!) Species included Red Knot , Common Ringed Plover , Bar-tailed Godwit , Sanderling , Dunlin , Curlew Sandpiper , European Golden-Plover , Grey Plover , Ruff , Eurasian Godwit , and Little Stint. before starting his MSc.

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Sri Lanka Netherlands Namibia South Africa 218

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. I therefore finished the year on a high note, seeing quite a few species I scarcely got to see during the previous years. So here they are, my top 10 bird species of 2016, in no particular order except for No. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In fact, the habitat on Chacachacare recalls that of the desert islands of the Netherlands Antilles. Walking along the beach and drifting sporadically into the dry forest, the first birds we heard were White-fringed Antwrens and Black-faced Grassquits – both are species not found on Trinidad but relatively common on Tobago.

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Trinidad Netherlands Columbus Whales 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Both guides contain Howell’s expert species descriptions and Dyer’s beautiful scientific illustrations—an unbeatable combination. Dragan) Before starting Birdingplaces.eu , Chris van der Heijden worked for BirdLife in The Netherlands. Its focus on only 19 species allows for luxuriously large illustrations and range maps.

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North America Birds Europe Costa Rica 252