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  1. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    Plenty of Golden Orioles and Nightingales in Petite Camargue, just few km north of Basel, and all along the Rhine. Little Egrets are nesting too. Within an hour drive of Basel there are breeding Bee-eaters, Stone Curlews, Cattle Egrets, Red Partridges - along the Rhine in France and Germany.
  2. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    I like the Bearded Vulture reintroduction program. I hope they soon switch to the Bald Ibis.
  3. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    For me Merlin regularly picks birds which I am certain are not in the area and not called - recently Grey Wagtail in the middle of the forest and American Pipit in Basel. Merlin recently progressed to 'helps more than wastes your time' but still needs to be treated with a grain of salt.
  4. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    I heard the first Nightingale in Tessin!
  5. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    Austria, France, Germany have the birds, ski lifts, roads with 3 times less regulations. But it is going off topic.
  6. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    I think it is cultural character of Swiss. They organize everything, even things for which the simplicity is an essential component. I long ago realized that essential part of resting is mental rest from planning and keeping schedules. This means that if I have to spend an hour figuring out and...
  7. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    It depends what you compare - suburbs of Zurich with rural France, then it is so. But human population density in Switzerland is much higher. Switzerland has one of highest population densities in Europe. In a similarly populated country, the Netherlands, they found that with high human...
  8. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    Birdwatchers in Switzerland must be most unruly and more numerous that anywhere else in the world. Why else the level of secrecy would be so much higher? And one would need 3 different platforms to know about birds? Switzerland is extreme, because one third of breeding birds has location...
  9. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    How did you get the info? Neither Sociable Plover nor reported Bluetail did not apprear on ornitho.ch
  10. jurek

    Switzerland 2024

    Lesser Scaup on Rhine near Kembs in Germany / France, and was seen commuting south towards Swiss border just few km away.
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