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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. In recent years the majority of the Red-breasted Geese have stayed in Romania, with much smaller numbers in Bulgaria. Last year the peak count of Red-breasts in Bulgaria was 800, with 14,600 over the border in Romania).

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Just had my lifer Cinereous Vulture this morning

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Before I was born, it used to be a rare breeding species in mountainous areas south of Belgrade, but became extinct after the 1960s due to intensive poisoning of wolves. There’s an eagle… a White-tailed Eagle , a relatively common and numerous breeding species of riparian forests along large water courses and fishponds.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway.

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Planning and executing birding plans in the times of corona-virus

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First, 800 km of driving from Belgrade through Bulgaria to very NE corner of Greece and the Dadia Forest National Park with its 36 species of diurnal raptors, out of Europe’s 38. Then about a 100 km to the Ismarida Lake and Porto Lagos lagoons for breeding and migrating waders.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Other birds of the Rusanda are Great Bittern , Purple Heron , Eurasian Spoonbill , Meadow and rare Red-throated Pipit , Icterine Warbler , Eurasian Penduline Tit , Lesser Gray Shrike , breeding Red-footed Falcon , Little and Long-eared Owls , etc. eBird bar chart. #2

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