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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

10,000 Birds

Today, birders wanting to see this avian gem usually venture to the healthy populations of the Iberian peninsular or travel to Hungary. Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right. Once you’re on the tower, the bustards are often seen towards the right.

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Searching for a White-backed Woodpecker

10,000 Birds

White-backed Woodpecker was one of the major target birds of the Bükk Hills portion of the trip to Hungary and though I would probably have preferred seeing what I now believe to be the mythical Black Woodpecker , the White-backed Woodpecker was a nice consolation prize. No one had access to my thought processes or to the previous footnote.