Tag: Birds

The mighty Danube River flows 1,788 miles from its springs in Germany’s Black Forest to the Black Sea. Just before reaching the sea, it forms the second largest and best-preserved of Europe’s deltas: 2,200 square miles of rivers, canals, marshes, tree-fringed lakes, and reed islands. The Danube Delta is a wildlife enthusiast’s (especially a bird watcher’s) paradise. Travelers can spend three or more days exploring its passages, teaming with the highest concentration of bird colonies in all of Europe. The maze of canals bordered by thatch, willows, and oaks entangled in lianas, offers the perfect breeding ground for countless species ... Read more

The critical endangered Yellow Breasted Bunting has been reconfirmed recording in Boeung Prek Lapouv, a Landscape Protection Area in a large wetland in the Lower Mekong Delta, located in Borey Chulsar and Koh Andet districts of Takeo province. According to a news release of the Birdlife International Cambodia Programme issued recently, a field team, led by Mr Ly Samphors, BirdLife project coordinator, and Mr. Chhoeurn Sochheat, Ranger team leader, has recorded a flock of Yellow Breasted Bunting – about 20 birds. “This is a reconfirmed recording after we lost information for the last three years. Land encroachment, water shortage in ... Read more