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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. This may make taxonomic fanatics faint, but it is useful for learning how to differentiate amongst birds that look alike but really aren’t, like sparrows and longspurs, hummingbirds and swifts. So say Kevin T.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

The series of birding workshops and meetings continued across the map, through Ulcinj, Montenegro, then Samobor, Croatia and Stip (described here ), North Macedonia, leading to Brussels, the unofficial capital of EU. Hence, I had to adopt a new one. He couldn’t understand. Neither can I. And the day was tropical. And I become a Birder.

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