Showing posts with label Birds of Bulgaria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds of Bulgaria. Show all posts
Friday 30 May 2014
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Saturday 24 May 2014
BEARDED REEDLING (Male) Panurus biarmicus Durankulak Lake, Durankulak, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria
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The Bearded Reedling (Panurus biarmicus) occurs in the temperate parts of Europe and Asia. Alternative names include Bearded Tit and Bearded Parrotbill. This species is found in reed beds and feeds on a wide variety of small invertebrates. In late autumn with the onset of colder weather, it develops a gizzard. This allows it to feed on seeds during the winter months when its normal food source is mainly absent. With the rise in temperature in late spring, invertebrates become more abundant again and its gizzard gradually dissolves. It then reverts back to being a totally insectivorous species. Text © www.rawbirds.com |
Saturday 17 August 2013
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER Charadrius dubius Poda Nature Reserve, Burgas, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria
| CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE HIGHER QUALITY IMAGE Click here for detailed species information |
| Summer resident in Europe which winters in Africa |
Saturday 15 June 2013
CONTINENTAL CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax carbo subspecies P. c. sinensis) two adults at Poda Nature Reserve, Burgas, Bulgaria
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Click external link here for detailed species information Click external link here to see distribution map and to hear calls There are a number subspecies recognised including the ground nesting Common Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo) which occurs in Britain and Ireland that breeds on coastal rocky outcrops and on off shore islands. The tree nesting Continental Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) which breeds in Northern Europe extending eastwards to Japan, but has in recent times colonised parts
of southern Britain. This is apparently a rare subspecies in Ireland
with less than 70 records but is in all probably under recorded. |
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