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Wonderful Wedgies

10,000 Birds

But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia. The species breeds on an extraordinary number of islands, and has a worldwide population of perhaps over five million birds, and this is in spite of declines to due hunting, persecution and introduced species.

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Birding Greece: Black and white world

10,000 Birds

These falcons mostly feed on insects, but in the breeding season they catch migrating passerines – they even time their breeding to coincide with Autumn migration of passerines in late summer! Madagascar must have separated from Africa long before they evolved. Eleonora’s Falcons are migrants themselves.

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