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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

10,000 Birds

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left.

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Hotspur’s Revenge: A Review of Three Books

10,000 Birds

Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. What’s magic about 1970?

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