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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. It must be frustrating.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. As we entered the harbour, Nikos explained the state of ecotourism in the national park: “The previous 2018 was the record year with, I estimate, about 3000 birders visiting the lake.

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