Tag: Hungary

Birds

The Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

October 13, 2012 by Corey 2 Comments

Old world warblers are difficult for North American birders. That is obvious. Rather than trying to learn them North American birders are well-advised to...

Trips

Birding Sarokház Panzió – An Airport Hotel in Budapest

August 8, 2012 by Corey 3 Comments

Having jumped around a bit while writing up my trip to Hungary – sharing a few galleries, a trip to find an elusive woodpecker,...

Birds

Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla

July 31, 2012 by Corey 8 Comments

There are two species in the Old World woodpecker genus that sounds like birds that birders would never be able to see. They are...

Mammals

Northern White-breasted Hedgehog Erinaceus roumanicus

July 23, 2012 by Corey 9 Comments

Jeff Gordon and I were wandering around the seriously disturbed habitat behind the airport hotel we stayed in outside of Budapest when a bizarre...

Birds

Fledgling Barred Warbler

July 20, 2012 by Corey 1 Comment

The Barred Warbler, otherwise known as Sylvia nisoria, is one of those species that is aptly named if you only ever see an adult...

Birds

Feeding a Fledgling Song Thrush

July 16, 2012 by Corey 2 Comments

Do you know what the luckiest little bird in the world is? It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended by a parent outside...

Trips

Searching for a White-backed Woodpecker

June 30, 2012 by Corey 10 Comments

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern,...

Birding