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Upside-down January

10,000 Birds

Once upon a time, vast forests of Quercus robur , known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, blanketed the Sava River floodplain, all the way from Croatia down to the river’s confluence in Belgrade. At the end of the month my list stood at a ridiculous 45, instead of 100 or more. Which is good news.

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Birding the Cyclades: My my, how can I resist you?

10,000 Birds

Off to the nearest kaiki (traditional Greek fishing boat) followed by a flock of shearwaters and gulls. This shearwater is a Mediterranean endemic, breeding from Sardinia and Corsica to the Adriatic and the Aegean. Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta.

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