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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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From that year onward my work became dedicated to the protection of the area, as well as promotion of local ecotourism possibilities. Since then, the majority of my guests became birders and wildlife photographers. The post Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Predator animal noises in movies vs reality

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don't have much contact with the wildlife, especially the dangerous kind, but my assumption would be that they don't necessarily make constant noises, growls and rorars when hunting, which would make the prey notice them.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g.

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Emerging birding destinations: Serbia

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In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three Wild Boars. You may have read about Kikinda in the Wall Street Journal or the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Finding birds in Belgrade. Great Bustard Sanctuary.

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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

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Afraid that, against millions in investments wildlife may not be an argument enough, I reached for another – the wellbeing of Belgraders, further downstream. Were the hydrologists of 1920s worried where the fish will spawn, Wild Boars fatten and eagles nest? Is this of any importance to an aspiring EU member country?

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It Slaght has a wonderful talent for depicting people.

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