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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning

10,000 Birds

A sounder of Indian Boars is watching us from the jungle. They belong to a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus (like four-legged Greco/Roman crested helmets) and are my second race of boar seen in India, while I still remain the only Serbian birder who has never seen one closer to home!

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

10,000 Birds

It’s the boar hunting season. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start. The second turned out to be true.

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