Avibirds welcomes you to the online birdguide of Europe, providing extensive information over 700 species. You will find species information on physical description, habitat, range, breeding, feeding and conservation concerns. Also the song, European database links, migration details and distribution maps are available for almost every species. For over 450 species scientific articles are available for download in the literature section.
 Listen to the song and calls of almost 5000 species in the bird sounds section!
 Added 10 new species in the Suriname bird guide
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Bird dictonary
Allopatry Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of birds of the species unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation
Arboreal
Refering to birds living in trees or to areas covered with trees.
Crepuscular
The dawn and dusk period of the day when many species like to hunt
Beak
The extension in front of the birds head consisting of two mandibles
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2500-year-old bird's nest found (BBC news)
A 2,500-year-old bird's nest has been discovered on a cliff in Greenland. The nesting site is still continually used by gyrfalcons, the world's largest species of falcon, and is the oldest raptor nest ever recorded. Three other nests, each over 1,000 years old, have also been found, one of which contains feathers from a bird that lived more than 600 years ago. However, ornithologists fear climate change may soon drive the birds from these ancient nesting sites.
Gyrfalcons live circumpolar to the Arctic. The birds range in colour from being almost exclusively white in Greenland to usually black in Labrador in Canada. Like many falcons, they do not build nests out of sticks and twigs, but typically lay eggs in bowl-shaped depressions they scrape into existing ledges or old nests made by other birds such as ravens. But while stick nests are often frequently damaged, preventing their repeated use, gyrfalcons will often revisit some ledges and potholes from year to year.
Read more on the BBC site
Bird identification Ringed and Little Ringed Plover
Click the picture below and learn about the subtle differences between the Ringed an Little Ringed Plover.
Picture by Ren Hathway of Birdwatch
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Climate change impact on European birds
Climate change is having a major impact on birds across Europe. Scientists have created the world's first indicator of the climate change impacts on wildlife at a continental scale. In the picture below graphs representing species predicted to gain or loose range in response to climatic change.
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