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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Other important breeding species include Black and White Stork , Lesser Spotted , White-tailed , and Booted Eagle. Also Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans are resident species, breeding successfully on artificial platforms (close to 300 pairs).

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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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impressive for Central Europe. Now, that is an attitude I have to respect, just ask any former worker in car and other industries whose management went after the short-term profit and moved production to Asia, and you’ll know why. I am still trying to sort out my impressions and memories.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic. None other than W.S. of the German Anglers Association. On Chongming Island, an Upland Buzzard seemed to be almost bemused by being mobbed by a single Oriental Magpie.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. 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. The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List).

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Map by BirdLife International.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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And here in Europe, they are the real deal, an indigenous species and not domesticated animals gone wild. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. 16% of urban nests were invaded by predators but 43% of rural nests were.

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