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The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

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When I drove to Xábia at the end of April to visit my brother at his new house the rain was pretty much everywhere in Spain. I had prepared for the trip reading Ernest Garcia’s Where to watch birds in Northern & Eastern Spain. The next couple of days were more about family than birding. I was all alone in a national park!

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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My only wolf sightings have been in Spain, in December, and at great range. A Red Fox in Georgia, not looking very red I’ve never been to Svalbard, so I haven’t ticked off polar bear, but I have seen brown bears on a number of occasions in both Romania and Bulgaria. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)

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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

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The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. The Tramuntanas – Spain. But an ecstatic Andy Whitaker had the following to say at the close of Day 6 before the final numbers had been tallied, “We got twenty more birds than them, just seeing the Spectacled Bear.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. In a second, it disappeared into trees, down towards a rocky gorge, but not before I spotted it. Preposterous!

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