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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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Having said that, my sentimental journey started without a plan, more by accident, on an AGM of BirdLife Slovenia in Ljubljana in 2005. The post Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home appeared first on 10,000 Birds. I remember the look on the face of the RSPB representative at the meeting, seeing us all like that.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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And I am inside the southern tip of the western Balkan Dinara-Pindos population range, stretching from Slovenia in the north to Greece in the south, with 2,500 bears. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus. Only the Balkan (700 + 2,500 ind.) and Carpathian populations (8,000 ind.)

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