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What is killing birds at Karla Lake (Greece)?

10,000 Birds

Before it was drained for agriculture in 1962, Lake Karla covered 180 km2 / 70 mi2 – a good portion of the eastern Thessaly Plain and was among the largest wetlands of Europe (visit the Management Body of the lake’s GIS platform ). Spring (migrants and breeding species) and winter (wintering waterbirds). Now I can say I was.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

10,000 Birds

With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands. and the White Storks are also wild and countable despite breeding at the zoo. The rose ring of the Rose-ringed.

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