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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 3 The Egyptian Vulture

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The Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus has been one of my favourite birds since I was little. The bright yellow shrivelled-up skin of the naked head is most repulsive…and yet it must be repeated few birds present a finer sight when on the wing… ”. The most recent estimates suggest that some 1,500 pairs breed in Spain.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. You can see my birding activities abroad and within Germany on the maps at the top of this post. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.

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