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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

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The south, just 21 kilometers away, is the coast of Morocco and the Griffons have just completed a short but arduous sea-crossing across the Strait of Gibraltar. As I write these lines, it is the screaming of agitated Y ellow -legged Gulls Larus michehellis just outside my window that alerts me to another raptor overhead.

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A Most Unexpected Encounter

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Two other countries we visited, Morocco and Turkey, have recently experienced catastrophic earthquakes. Fortunately, two species of Mergansers sometimes stray to Cuba, and so my friend suggested, correctly, that ours was a female Hooded Merganser. Flight changes were required, in mid trip. But which one?

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