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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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Booted Eagle by Kostas Papadopoulos The next morning was a lazy one, a late breakfast and even later excursion. Later in the day, roadside birds included a Booted Eagle and a Levant Sparrowhawk. What amazed me is that, instead of the usual 6 or 8 slices, this pizza was cut into tiny, bite-size slices!

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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At the same time, a Peregrine Falcon flies across the valley. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. Short-toed Snake-Eagle – Circaetus gallicus. Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus. Mute Swan – Cygnus olor.

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Good Hummingbirds at El Tapir

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Miss that Red-footed Falcon , Pink-footed Goose , or Brown-chested Martin and we won’t let a dance partner catch us as we sort of do a pseudo fall, but we will have “dipped” Mention that you were “pishing” to a non-birder and they might give you a dirty look. or even Hudsonian Godwit.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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Second, it abandoned the standard format for field guides established by Roger Tory Peterson (who wrote the book’s Forward), succinct lists of field marks and arrows pointing them out, to engage in long paragraphs discussing how a hawk soaring above might be identified. Published in 1988, Hawks in Flight was unique for its time.