10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Hence, I was quite surprised with a brave, almost exciting paper by Brown, Forbes and Symes: “Recent history of the Egyptian Vulture in Southern Africa” (Vulture News, 2000). Conservation Africa Balkans Egyptian Vulture vultures' However, these birds used to live in my country and I still wanted to see them closer to home.

Sudan 220

Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction.

Endangered Species 185

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 185

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

And unlike the protection of cormorants, which was perceived as a problem, protection of pelicans was welcomed by the local communities. Nikos managed to show us the incubating Cattle Egrets, of which only 2 or 3 pairs breed in this enormous heronry, counting up to 9000 pairs back in 2014. Then, there was a herd of buffaloes.

Greece 190

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 190