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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

10,000 Birds

You may have read about them in the Wall Street Journal , the BBC Wildlife Magazine , or perhaps watched them on BBC, who filmed them here twice, for the Planet Earth II in 2015 and for the One Planet in 2018. Actually, the numbers are even higher. Soon, we parked by the main square and asked one of the curio sellers where are the owls?

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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

10,000 Birds

One in November 2018 included a one-day birding trip in the Drakensberg area, a mountain range in the border area between South Africa and Lesotho. After my Przevalski experience, I now look up such names to check whether the person the bird is named after has made similar racist statements, or even done worse things.