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The Cattle Egret Expansion

10,000 Birds

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight. Hence, I had to adopt a new one. While heading to the Croatian sea coast I did pass through the city’s railway station a few times in the 1980s, the last time I spent some time in Sarajevo when I was still a kid.

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