10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three Wild Boars. You may have read about Kikinda in the Wall Street Journal or the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Finding birds in Belgrade. Great Bustard Sanctuary. Paljuvi Dam.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. Slaght has a wonderful talent for depicting people. ’ I still have two questions to answer.

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