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Jochen’s 2017 year list

February 5, 2017 by Jochen 8 Comments

Yes, here it is, another attempt at keeping a year list. I started keeping year lists – not just blogging about them but really...

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

January 8, 2017 by Jochen 9 Comments

The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or...

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Darkness comes in shades of brown

December 11, 2016 by Jochen 6 Comments

You may have missed it. Birders tend to miss things outside the birding universe, what with being out and about in the woods and...

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Displaying Great Bustard

September 18, 2016 by Jochen 2 Comments

Birds wanting to make more birds often do crazy stuff, and birders are well accustomed to encountering splendid plumage features, impossible feather structures, crazy...

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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

August 21, 2016 by Jochen 6 Comments

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s...

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Common Moorhens at Hannover Zoo

July 24, 2016 by Jochen No Comments

The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can even be scarce regionally, but...

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Red-necked Grebes in Germany

June 26, 2016 by Jochen 4 Comments

There is no denying the fact that birders are a discriminating bunch. This seems to apply especially to birders in North American since most...

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Biting the bullet or jumping the shark? A potential Baikal Wagtail in Germany

May 1, 2016 by Jochen 5 Comments

I recently saw and photographed what appears to be a Baikal Wagtail (Motacilla alba-or-not baicalensis) in Germany. If I am correct, this would apparently...

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