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Birds (Iran)
Birds of Iran: about 491 recorded species, 324 breeding, at a crossroads of Palearctic, Oriental, and Afrotropical faunas; key wetlands, Ramsar host, falconry heritage, and current war and conservation pressures.
Birds of Prey Aviary
Birds of Prey Aviary: enclosed facilities housing non-releasable raptors such as owls, hawks, eagles, and vultures for education, breeding, and conservation; examples include Boyd Hill (est. 1986), Radnor Lake, and Antwerp Zoo.
Birds Park
Birds Park (Πάρκο Πουλιών Σάββας), also Savvas Bird & Animal Park, is a small zoo in Kato Pyrgos, Nicosia District, Cyprus, holding birds plus donkeys, goats, deer and an emu; open 09:00-19:00 daily, free entry, distinct from Small Birds Park in Engomi and Birds Park Hambantota.
Biriciana
Biriciana (castrum Biriciana) is the Roman cavalry fort at Weißenburg, Bavaria, garrisoned by the ala I Hispanorum Auriana from about 90 AD, rebuilt in stone around 150 AD, destroyed around 253/254, with a reconstructed north gate and Roman baths.
Birka and Hovgården
Birka and Hovgården: Viking Age trading town on Björkö and royal estate on Adelsö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993, first Christian congregation (831, St Ansgar), Alsnö hus and the Royal Council of 1280.
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
UNESCO World Heritage Site (2012) in Bethlehem, 10 km south of Jerusalem, covering the Church of the Nativity, built AD 339 and rebuilt in the 6th century over the cave venerated as Jesus's birthplace, plus convents and the Pilgrimage Route.
Biscayne National Park
Biscayne National Park, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, protects Biscayne Bay, the northernmost Florida Keys, mangrove shoreline, and the northern Florida Reef Tract. Authorized 1968 as a monument, redesignated 1980; about 95 percent water.
Bishop's House
Bishop's House names many unrelated buildings, chiefly official residences of diocesan bishops, including East Denton Hall in Newcastle (1622, Grade I), houses in Easton MD, Auckland, Boise, Perth, Hong Kong, and Pugin's demolished Birmingham house.
Bismarck Archipelago (protected area)
Bismarck Archipelago (protected area): FEOW freshwater ecoregion 817 off northeast New Guinea, PNG, covering New Britain, New Ireland, and Manus; one endemic fish, Stenogobius alleni; conservation via the Bismarck Forest Corridor, Bismarck Seascape, and the 2025-2030 SoNG project.
Bison compound
Pokazowa Zagroda Żubrów (European Bison Show Farm), Pszczyna, Poland: bison display and breeding compound in the historic Pszczyna Park, opened 1 June 2008, keeping the Pszczyna (PL) lowland bison subline on almost 10 hectares.
Bisotun
Bisotun, also spelled Behistun, is an archaeological site in Kermanshah province, western Iran, whose key monument is Darius I's trilingual cuneiform inscription of 521 BC, a key to deciphering cuneiform.
Bistra
Bistra (Bisztra), a reported Roman-era alluvial gold-washing site on the Bistra River, Alba County, Romania (Dacia), known from 19th-century reports of mining tools and a Caracalla coin; distinct from the Slovenian Bistra site.
Bitburg controversy
Bitburg controversy: 1985 dispute over Reagan and Kohl's wreath-laying at Kolmeshöhe cemetery, Bitburg, where 49 Waffen-SS graves among 2,000 German dead sparked US congressional and Jewish-organization protests before the May 5 visit.
Bithoor Mound
Bithoor Mound (Dhruv Teela, बिठूर टीला) is an ASI Centrally Protected earthen mound on the Ganga's west bank at Bithoor, Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, with early historical pottery, temples, and an ashram within its 7.553-acre protected boundary.
Biyun Flowers Farm
Biyun Flowers Farm (碧云花园, Biyun Flower Sea Farm) is a 2001-founded leisure-agriculture flower attraction in Dayun, Jiashan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, known for azalea heritage, lilies, and Little Altay nickname.
Bjergelide
Bjergelide, an Early Roman Iron Age burial site in Bjerge parish north of Vejle Fjord, Denmark, holds a richly equipped mounted warrior's cremation grave with weapons, spurs, gold rings, and five Roman imports.
Blacciacum
Blacciacum (Blassiacum), Latin name of Plassac in Gironde, France: a Gallo-Roman settlement with three villas (1st-6th c.), mosaic floors, and a possible mention in Bishop Bertram's will (d. 616).
Black Ball Camp
Black Ball Camp (Black Ball or British Camp) is an Iron Age univallate hillslope enclosure on Gallox Hill, Dunster, Somerset, 100 by 80 m, scheduled monument 1007668, possibly an outwork of Bat's Castle hillfort.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, western Colorado near Montrose, a 1999 park protecting a 48-mile gorge cut by the Gunnison River through 1.7-billion-year-old gneiss and schist, up to 2,722 feet deep.
Black Lives Matter Plaza
Black Lives Matter Plaza was the 2020-2025 name of two blocks of 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C., with a 48-foot yellow Black Lives Matter mural, made permanent in 2021 and removed in 2025.
Black Nazarene
Black Nazarene (Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno), a dark life-size statue of kneeling Jesus carrying the cross enshrined at Quiapo Church, Manila, since 1787; brought from Mexico in 1606; its January 9 Traslación procession draws millions.
Black Park
Black Park (Black Park Country Park) is a 217-hectare country park at Wexham, south Buckinghamshire, near Slough, designated in 1970; known for heathland SSSI, Black Park Lake, Go Ape, and Pinewood Studios filming.
Black's Beach
Black's Beach (Torrey Pines City Beach and State Beach) is a two-mile San Diego beach beneath 300-foot cliffs, known for expert winter surf, difficult cliff access, and a customary clothing-optional northern section.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Pleasure Beach Resort) is a family-owned amusement park in Blackpool, Lancashire, founded in 1896 by W.G. Bean and John Outhwaite, home to the Big One, ICON, and Grade II listed Noah's Ark.
Blackwater Falls State Park
Blackwater Falls State Park, in Tucker County near Davis, West Virginia, centers on a 57-foot amber cascade on the Blackwater River. Established 1937, it offers a 51-room lodge, 39 cabins, 65 campsites, 20 miles of trails, and the East Coast's longest sledding magic carpet.
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000, criteria iii and iv, ID 984) in Torfaen, South Wales, 3,310 ha around Blaenavon Ironworks (1789) and Big Pit coal mine, showing 19th-century iron and coal industrialisation.
Blaikfjället
Blaikfjället is a sub-alpine plateau and nature reserve in Vilhelmina and Dorotea, Västerbotten, Sweden, with 30,000 ha of mires, a Ramsar site (no. 2167, 2013), aapa mires, primeval spruce forest, and rich birdlife.
Blatobulgium
Blatobulgium (Birrens) was a Roman auxiliary fort in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, an outpost of Hadrian's Wall on the Antonine Itinerary, occupied 1st–2nd century AD, garrisoned by German cohorts, destroyed AD 158.
Blauto/Blavia
Blauto/Blavia, ancient name of Blaye (Gironde, France), a Roman/Late Antique settlement of Aquitania on the Bordeaux-Poitiers road, attested in the Antonine Itinerary, Tabula Peutingeriana, Ravenna Cosmography, Ausonius, and Gregory of Tours.
Blekinge Archipelago Biosphere Reserve
Blekinge Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (Blekinge Arkipelag), UNESCO MAB site designated June 2011 in south-east Sweden; 259,500 ha across Karlskrona, Ronneby, Karlshamn; first Swedish biosphere focused on Baltic Sea issues; includes Naval Port of Karlskrona World Heritage site.