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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

A rutting Fallow buck, photographed in Norfolk, England Elk (or what the Americans call Moose) I’ve encountered several times in Scandinavia, Estonia and Poland. I’ve only seen European Bison in Poland, in the Bialoweiza Forest. A few are easy, such as the Egyptian Fruit Bat, the largest bat we have in Europe.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically. I’ve yet to see an English pine marten, but I once watched one hunting red squirrels in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland.

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