Birds of Europe

Durankulak Bird Ringing Camp will take place from August 15 to October 31, 2020. This will be the second year of the camp, organized by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research and the National Museum of Natural History - both at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Balkani Wildlife Society and Mr. Patrick Bergkamp, a lifelong ringer from the Netherlands. ✅If you lov ... Read more

Safet Halil holds a stork in his farm backyard. He found five of the stranded birds, took them home and lit a stove to warm them up, before feeding them fish. Villagers come to the rescue after icy wings ground hundreds of migrating birdsWhat would you do if you encountered scores of distressed storks covered in ice lying in a snow-covered field? In Bulgaria, people have been taking them home. A cold snap in the north-east of the country has stranded hundreds of the migra ... Read more

Authors of report on bird declines say intensive farming and pesticides could turn Europe’s farmland into a desert that ultimately imperils all humansThe “catastrophic” decline in French farmland birds signals a wider biodiversity crisis in Europe which ultimately imperils all humans, leading scientists have told the Guardian. A dramatic fall in farmland birds such as skylarks, whitethroats and ortolan bunting in France was revealed by two studies this week, with the spread of neonicotinoid pesticides ... Read more