10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I had the good fortune to be asked to represent one of the UK’s national birding magazines ‘Birdwatching’ on a press trip to Southern Portugal earlier this month. In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe.

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Critter News

JULY 27, 2012

From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff. Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2013

Boris once told me a hysterically funny story in which he discovered his ex-wife in the process of adopting a Russian orphan without telling him. Boris’s name is not really Boris; unfortunately his given name is the same as that of my last ex-husband, so I felt compelled to re-name him. Green-rumped Barskimmer ,” said Boris.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

Late June night at the Casino Estoril, then the largest casino in Europe, located in the neutral Portugal where spies of all colours met. Yet, it will be several more years until James Bond was born. The year was 1941. The casino was thick with people and tobacco.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 163