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Noudar Nature Park, Portugal

10,000 Birds

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. On the last day we headed towards the border with Spain to the west and the village of Barrancos.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. Sort Of.

10,000 Birds

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. From the middle of the melee a man glared up at us, as if he suspected we were secretly rooting for Spain. “ He told it in a perfect Russian accent, hence the name (and his eventual divorce).