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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

10,000 Birds

Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. I’ve since seen individual Red-breasts in winter in the Netherlands (with Brent), in Estonia on spring passage (always with Barnacles), and on the Swedish island of Öland in autumn (again with Barnacles).

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Birding Finland on the Fly

10,000 Birds

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Old Town Tallinn, Estonia. Finland is a great place to see a variety of different species, many of which flock to the north to take advantage of the extended daylight during the breeding season.

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