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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

And I am inside the southern tip of the western Balkan Dinara-Pindos population range, stretching from Slovenia in the north to Greece in the south, with 2,500 bears. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. Only the Balkan (700 + 2,500 ind.)

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Sandwich Tern in New York

10,000 Birds

It was back in July of 2009 , the day that I saw more species of tern than any other day of my life, and I have no pictures of my first Thalasseus sandvicensis because I had managed to forget my digiscoping adapter that day. Until recently I had only ever seen a single Sandwich Tern.

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