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Cinereous Vulture on Chongming Island, Shanghai

December 7, 2024 by Kai Pflug 5 Comments

Juvenile Cinereous Vultures are wimps, or to use a German word, “Warmduscher”. While the breeding adults stay near their nest all year, the juveniles...

Birding

Just had my lifer Cinereous Vulture this morning (Serbia)

March 23, 2023 by Dragan No Comments

I woke up this morning and checked social media before the coffee, only to notice a post: “MEGA – a Cinereous Vulture [a.k.a. Eurasian...

Birding

Vulture Socialism

January 7, 2021 by Kai Pflug 1 Comment

One of the minor challenges of writing a blog post for 10,000 Birds is to come up with a title. Now, I usually go...

Trips

Searching for vultures in India

May 24, 2018 by Dragan No Comments

What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding. A war zone? Then you are worse than me....

Trips

Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

April 26, 2018 by Dragan 1 Comment

Morning at the slopes of Mt. Povlen, a quick stop filled with a song that sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it since last...

Birding

White-backed Vultures are Proper Birds

May 13, 2015 by Duncan 8 Comments

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some...

Birds

Terry, Ray, and Veronica’s Vulture

March 8, 2013 by Suzie 8 Comments

The upside of rehabbing Turkey Vultures is they’re smart, funny, cool, fascinating birds. The downside is sometimes they’ll bite you and throw up on you....

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