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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

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A narrow forest road takes us to the chain blocking the entrance, with a sign “Area closed – bear danger”. A Eurasian Blackbird is checking for the remaining maize seeds. Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. Now would be the biggest chance for a bear… or maybe not?

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The Oriolest Oriole

10,000 Birds

Icterus is a wide-ranging neotropical genus consisting of the technicolor blackbirds we call orioles. In North America, at least in the eastern part of it, we celebrate the return of the Baltimore Oriole to parks and farms this time of year. The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long bodied and bicolored.

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Collaborative list – April 2019

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Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

10,000 Birds

Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. enta fish farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Spot-fronted Swift – Cypseloides cherriei. Villa San Ignacio, Alajuela. 23 Feb 2019. 20 Feb 2019. san rafael road.

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Collaborative list – May 2019

10,000 Birds

Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Chomes–Calle San Agustín and farms. Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). enta fish farm. Tricolored Blackbird – Agelaius tricolor.

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