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Emerging birding destinations: Serbia

10,000 Birds

Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background. A few years later, in December 2011, we had 6500 Pygmy Cormorants overwintering inside the city. Alongside 170 birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Grey Wolf !

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The crowd of macaws is soon joined by parrots arriving as if on cue and bearing their colorfully named body parts: Yellow-crowned , Blue-headed , White-bellied , Orange-cheeked , and Mealy – followed by two species of parakeets – Dusky-headed and White-eyed. Mar 7th, 2011 at 1:09 pm [.] in south-eastern Peru.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Press, 2011, cited as “RTP to Paul Brooks, March 6, 1945, Peterson Institute.” Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946.