Karen and Markus take part in an annual bird count and include their road kill project Karen and Markus are world travellers and avid adventurers. For the second leg of their trip, they are bicycling through Europe and recording roadkill observations for the ASC Roadkill Survey for Road Bikers. For more on their trip, visit their website http://2enroute.blogspot.com/.  Every May, in recent years, I have enjoyed staying connected to Earlham College (where I got my B.A. degree) by participating in Birding Big Day. Donors pledge money per bird species and alumni from all over the world go out to try to find as many bird species as they can over graduation weekend. This year's birding big day was a lot of fun since we are in Europe and I'm trying to learn the birds here. I don't have a handle on European birdsongs yet so nearly all of these birds were ID'd by sight. We were enroute by bicycle through the Baltics over the BBD weekend so this list encompasses northwestern Latvia through much of Estonia. The weather didn't cooperate with us (our most promising spot along the route, a migratory bird area on the Latvian coast, was completely socked in with fog when we passed through) but we still managed to see birds here and there in other places.  As it happens, my bird guide is in German (a translation of Hayman and Hume's 2009 guide)! Luckily Markus knows all the birds by their German names anyway so we just used those and I actually don't know the English common names for a lot of these birds. We sent the list below with latin names - thanks to Bill Buskirk for adding English names to the list!
Feldlerche (Alauda arvensis) Skylark Weissstorch (Ciconia ciconia) White Stork Bachstelze (Motacilla alba) White or Pied Wagtail Kranich (Grus grus) Common Crane Elster (Pica pica) European Magpie Graureiher (Ardea cinerea) Gray Heron Stockente (Anas platyrhynchos) Mallard Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus) Northern Lapwing Buchfink (Fringilla coelebs) Chaffinch Kohlmeise (Parus major) Great Tit Braunkehlchen (Saxicola rubetra) Whinchat Wiesenschafstelze (Motacilla flava ssp. supercilians) Western Yellow Wagtail Brandgans (Tadorna tadorna) Shelduck Lachmoeve (Larus ridibundus) Black-headed Gull Rauchschwalbe (Hirundo rustica) Barn Swallow Nebelkrahe (Corvus cornix) Hooded Crow Saatkrahe (Corvus frugilegus) Rook Grunfink (Carduelis chloris) Greenfinch Haussperling (Passer domesticus) House Sparrow Eichelhaher (Garrulus glandarius) European Jay Amsel (Turdus merula) European Blackbird (of 4 and 20 fame) Loffelente (Anas clypeata) Northern Shoveler Hoeckerschwan (Cygnus olor) Mute Swan Neuntoeter (Lanius collurio) Red-backed Shrike Wacholderdrossel (Turdus pilaris) Fieldfare Ringeltaube (Columba palumbus)Wood Pigeon Kuckuck (Cuculus canorus) Common Cuckoo Stieglitz (Carduelis carduelis) European Goldfinch Singdrossel (Turdus philomelos) Song Thrush Blasshuehn (Fulica atra) European Coot Rothalstaucher (Podiceps grisegena) Red-necked Grebe Rohrweihe (Circus aeruginosus) Western Marsh Harrier Weissrueckenspecht (Dendrocopus leucotos) White-backed Woodpecker Star (Sturnus vulgaris) European Starling Mausebuzzard (Buteo buteo) Common Buzzard Graugans (Anser anser) Greylag Goose Markus has been doing a lot of bird-related photography, though without a zoom lens we are limited in what we can capture. Here are a few from birding along our route (Big Day and otherwise) as well as from our continued work with Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation to document roadkill observations. 6/17/2013 11:14:44 pm
We sent the list below with latin names - thanks to Bill Buskirk for adding English names to the list! 8/20/2013 06:59:27 pm
Thanks for the monumental photos plus sharing on part unbelievable info from opposite the ball! 9/20/2013 12:29:05 pm
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