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  1. Botaurus

    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...
  2. Botaurus

    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...
  3. Botaurus

    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...
  4. Botaurus

    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...
  5. Botaurus

    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...
  6. Botaurus

    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....
  7. Botaurus

    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...
  8. Botaurus

    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...
  9. Botaurus

    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...
  10. Botaurus

    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...
  11. Botaurus

    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...
  12. Botaurus

    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...
  13. Botaurus

    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...
  14. Botaurus

    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...
  15. Botaurus

    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...
  16. Botaurus

    Favourite Bird Artist

    Neat finnish painter. The one with the cartoon ducks is cute. The baroque barnyard and gamebird paintings remind me a lot of Melchior Hondecoeter, had finnland a lot of duch influence? So have you a clue what the huge bird in the lower center of the garden (the sociable brown job that stuffs...
  17. Botaurus

    Favourite Bird Artist

    Hi Woody, finding any examples online was some research alright, as for the artists, whom I did not stumble over as originals or artstore prints one day, I learned from a nice but oversized book I have. "The Art of Bird Illustration" by Maureen Lambourne. (...
  18. Botaurus

    A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany

    Entschuldigung, Fritz, das ich mich da einmische, aber ich habe einfach in Ihre persoenliche Gallerie zum spionieren gehen muessen... Wollte Ihnen nur sagen, echt schoene Fotos. Mir gefallen besonders die lustigen bunten Scharben und die tollen scharfen Baumsteiger Bilder! :clap: Sonja
  19. Botaurus

    Favourite Bird Artist

    Nice topic.... When it comes to contemporary artwork rather than straightlaced illustration, I am a HUGE fan of Sue Coleman, whose art I first saw in a store at Olympic NP, felt driven to buy every single postcard by her with a bird in it. She is both a true to life technical marvelous animal...
  20. Botaurus

    A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany

    Hallo Jas, ich bin mir noch immer nicht sicher ob wir nicht die Sysops hier aergern, wenn wir eine Sprache schreiben, die vieleicht keiner von ihnen kontrollieren kann --ich bin eben ziemlich Scheu und habe immer Angst bei jemand anzuecken... Aber so schlecht ist Ihr Englisch gewiss nicht...
  21. Botaurus

    Hello from Eugene, Oregon

    Moose, i can only tell you of sites a dabbling housewife with a 300mm lens on pacific northwest tour in late summer 2003 found impressing and got for her poor abilities mighty decent wild bird pics at... I found the muncipal campground at Sisters had exceptional tame and obliging passerines up...
  22. Botaurus

    A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany

    Jas -- Eigentlich habe ich nur eine Internet-Suchmaschine (google.com) benuetzt um zu sehen ob es wohl ein Soundfile vom Kea gibt. Ich weis kaum etwas ueber die meisten Psittacidae, in der freien Wildbahn kommen sie hierzulande ohnehin nur vor, wenn sie dem Besitzer entflogen sind... Sie...
  23. Botaurus

    A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany

    Ausserdem, hier ist der Kea, bittesehr: http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec74-54.html
  24. Botaurus

    A very nice Hello! to everybody from Munich in Germany

    Hallo Jas! Hier sind mehr Leute die Deutsch sprechen, keine Sorge! Thread und Post.... gibt es da deutsche Worte? Ich denke das sind schon Anglizismen... ich benutze das auch wenn ich Deutsch rede. Ein "Post" ist jedes Brieflein hier in der Reihe untereinander wie sich die Leute unterhalten...
  25. Botaurus

    Hi there from Switzerland

    Ah, a fellow Rohrdommel/Butor Etoile! Hi there! Swiss alpine birding is great, we live not far from the border to Appenzell county and just did Saentis last weekend! I am a sucker for those very cheeky Alpine Choughs up there... <s>
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