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Prespa Lakes National Park, Greece: the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world

10,000 Birds

My guess is, those nervous ones were some migrants, while the majority were locally breeding birds – the southernmost population of Europe! whose occupants have already left for Africa, but a clump of elaborate closed nests of Spanish Sparrows hang underneath it. and dual digits. I was able to read the numbers.02,

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

10,000 Birds

Everything is new, and even the pigeons or sparrows flying around the airport make an exciting first for your country list. Although it wasn’t the optimal period (most migrants already gone and wintering birds not there yet), we were looking forward to discovering a new and less birded region of Europe. This one was even singing!

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