Birds

The Bill of the Flamingo

May 12, 2013 by Jochen 1 Comment
The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are...
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The Thin Black Line

May 11, 2013 by Jochen 1 Comment
If you are a birder reading this, you will probably like flamingos because they are pink. If you are a flamingo reading this, you...
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The Flight of the Burning Pencils

May 10, 2013 by Jochen 3 Comments
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Germany was not a birding nation, at least not by international standards. In the good old...
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The Mystery of the Red Munia

May 5, 2013 by Jochen 2 Comments
To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or...
Birding

Birding in the Dark

March 3, 2013 by Jochen 3 Comments
Boy, do I have news for you. It has come to my attention recently, through the analysis of a chain of peculiar events, that...
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The Winter Thrush

February 3, 2013 by Jochen No Comments
The Fieldfare Turdus pilaris has a wide Eurasian breeding range that reaches from its western limit in central Europe north to the Arctic coast...
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Vive la France!

January 11, 2013 by Jochen 3 Comments
A search of more than 20 years. For a fleeting glimpse. Just to be fooled again. And again. Then… …on December 30th 2012, at...
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The tremendous Rhinoceros Hornbill

January 6, 2013 by Jochen 3 Comments
Most readers of this blog will certainly appreciate an out-of-season tropical post at the beginning of January, a post based on what was almost...
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