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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). managed to see it, his largest owl ever.

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Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015)

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There’s nothing to be afraid of: Landscape with Grave, Coffin, and Owl by Caspar David Friedrich. The 2015 Valravn Old Vine Zinfandel is a dark, blood-red wine showing incarnadine flashes in the glass. Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015). Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

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At the time of writing, Rwanda had 25 endemic birds (nowadays 27 to 29, depending on the taxonomy), but among the 26 mentioned and described is also the one that is not – yet – among them: the Congo Bay-owl , not confirmed for the country and recorded only in the guerilla infested montane forests of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

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