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Recent content by Botaurus
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how can we tell if the bird is pregnant?
I remember my granny "feeling up" her domestic chicken to tell how many are with egg for control if they lay all eggs into their stalls with the plaster decoy eggs or if they wander off to secret stashes. She would take a chicken under her arm and cup her other hand around the cloaka, and then...- Botaurus
- Post #5
- Forum: Tips For New Birders
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Cormorants rising from the ashes....
Thanks. This was very enlightening (a bit disapointing there is no old celtic stuff behind those Liverbirds linking them to our Hallstadt-people cormorant effigys tho', but fact is fact...). Now as we are at myths and fables: The bird vs. fish debate, as annoying it is, seems extremely old, as...- Botaurus
- Post #10
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Cormorants rising from the ashes....
Wow! What exactly is a Liverbird and it's mythos, please? Just a modern kind of fun town mascot or really the town named after a mythic bird? We have near here some bird deities or effigys or what ever you may dupe them, anyway they where found in an archeological dig in the bog near a town one...- Botaurus
- Post #7
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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The Cormorant Culling Debate
Hi Ian, well, the debate was quite bad, but in a way it just looked like the german stuff from the different viewpoints there to me, and this made me suspicious. It also reminds me of some issues at my last home before moving here. This was metro Detroit area in Michigan in the USA and the...- Botaurus
- Post #185
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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The Cormorant Culling Debate
It sure seems not a british issue. Mr. Stratford and Mr. Peters have both told interesting stories, like what happens in liahunia and how the british birds everzone is so upset about are obviously southern germans of orgin. What I think interesting is, that here is southern germany, we have no...- Botaurus
- Post #179
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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why coal tit was named "coal" tit?
Sorry, just realized the latest poster seemed aware already, I just hit the uppermost post to reply after making sure looking up in books without reading the thread further....- Botaurus
- Post #9
- Forum: Tips For New Birders
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why coal tit was named "coal" tit?
Ummm... sorry.... not to complicate this even more... But a english Coal Tit is a Parus ater , which germans refer to as Tannenmeise, whereas a german Kohlmeise is a Parus major, a Great Tit in english...- Botaurus
- Post #8
- Forum: Tips For New Birders
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A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany
Adaptable is a relative term... it is true that it won't care one way or the other if it lives on a farm with silo-feed full of insects and grain, at your feeder with nice special birdfood or in the mall parkinglot between the bakery and the kebab seller's booth... but without a human-altered... -
Austria?
Sorry Gwinn, I did not see your reply earlier, I forgot I ever posted anything in this section... So you live the other direction... I don't know of any top notch spots for real living birds between the Neusiedler See and Lake Constance, alas (the later is BTW also not half bad, just the... -
A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany
"Sperling" is actually not a species, but a family. Haussperling is House Sparrow/Passer domesticus, Feldsperling is Eurasian Tree Sparrow/Passer montanus, Weidensperling is Spanish Sparrow/Passer hispaniolensis. Now which is where endangered? I heared numbers of Passer Domesticus in the less... -
Favourite Bird Artist
What a nice site, Woody! This might get me accused of purely national preference, but I am most impressed by the surreal paintings of Harro Maass, that seem more about wildlife art as such than just wildlife. The picture with the shorebirds gathering on the easel is fascinating. Also, I think...- Botaurus
- Post #52
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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Favourite Bird Artist
Melanism as in the face of the depicted duck I understand, sort of. Human encouraged it by selective breeding, and those with such human-breed all white escapee ancestors are likelier to show some of it. As our human forebearers really liked to have white fowl, we have got so many wild ducks...- Botaurus
- Post #51
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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Favourite Bird Artist
As I was told, Tadorna tadorna was most prized as domestic meat duck in the middle ages, and their genes dominate today's white domestic duck. This would als explain why the huge chunky local mallard bastards with escaped domestic ducks tend to have combinations of a most distinctive neck ring...- Botaurus
- Post #47
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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Favourite Bird Artist
Oh late 19th they are! Strange the farm scenes have such a substancial baroque air then, recalling Hondecoetter or even Bogdani. Our romantics seem quite different to me, usually more idealized and all about light and symbolic purposes. :h?: I dabble in arts and crafts too, but am better at...- Botaurus
- Post #45
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany
Hallo Jas, kako ste? aber blos nicht auf serbo-kroatisch antworten, ich hab das nie besonders gut gesprochen und nun ist es auch schon viele Jahre her.... lange vor Amerika, und vor dem Krieg, haben wir mal 1/4 Jahr im Kosovo gewohnt.... Sie kriegen Spechte bis auf die Terasse? Da muessen...