10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
It seems that the Red-billed Leiothrix can be vocally dominant (it accounts for 37% of an entire bird community soundscape in northern Italy) and can influence the singing behavior, particularly of native Eurasian Blackcaps and European Robins (in Portugal and Italy). And who wants birds with highly visible Hitler mustaches anyway?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2024
My plan was to do research for this post, so I decided to enter as a common mortal and not use the electronic pass. We exchanged notes on where to find good birds in southern Portugal. Mid-February is an early start for spring – even this far south – but spring is spring, and birds were waiting. The encounter made me think.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2016
Either way, Europe’s White Storks seem to have found a year-round food source, and it’s changing their migration habits, according to new research. Instead of wintering in Africa and breeding in Europe, growing numbers of the birds now appear to be staying put in Spain and Portugal.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. • Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2024
These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal. Soon afterwards I flew to Trinidad and Tobago to research for an article, and was hugely impressed with the small Swarovskis when I used them to watch tanagers and toucans in the rainforest. With hindsight this wasn’t a great move.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2022
In Europe, most of them winter south of the Sahara but an increasing share winters north of it – which sounds like an interesting research topic for people who, ahem, find such topics interesting. It is rumored that one of the researchers later became a software developer.
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