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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

10,000 Birds

With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. Great Egret: 75.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

Greece 200
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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Press, 2015), and has also written articles on eBird and bird identification. Just go to the boldfaced page number.

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