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Finding Birds in Northern Greece by Dave Gosney

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Finding Birds in Northern Greece (2015) covers the birdwise very best northeast of the country (provinces of Macedonia and Thrace), from the wetland border with Turkey all the way to the mountains and lakes at the triple border with Albania and North Macedonia.

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What is Mexico’s National Bird?

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In fact, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , “The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world – it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.” ” The bird is massive.

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Birding Gatsby Country

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In 1951, King Zog I, the exiled ruler of Albania ( I am making not a word of this up ) bought an estate called Knollwood in Muttontown. Scott Fitzgerald. This pocket description may not make this sound like a particularly birdy area, but even for nature, fate can take strange turns.

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The 20 best birds of Belgrade and where to find them

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Several pairs have chosen the Albania Palace, a high-rise at Terazije St. One such area offering better chances is the northern Danube bank levee. Alpine Swifts breed at only a dozen sites in the country, but since 2018, downtown Belgrade is among them. and the first skyscraper built in Southeast Europe, in 1939.

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The Greek Strategy

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To reach Prespa Lakes, from Niki continue through Florina, from there right for Albania and veer right for the lakes. Head for the sea only when you fully recharge your batteries. If heading to the Kerkini, two kilometres after the border take the left turn for Serres and drive until you spot the lake on you right hand side.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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This September I found myself on a bear tracking tour organised by Natural Greece in the prime bear habitat of the Pindos range – the southernmost bear country in Europe, heading for the 2,520 m / 8,270 ft high Gramos Mountain along the border with Albania. inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Although some sub-populations have shown recent increases (including in Greece, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia and Turkey), this species’s population is suspected to have decreased rapidly over the last three generations… “Former declines were primarily caused by wetland drainage, shooting and persecution by fishers.

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