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My Global Big (half-)Day, May 2022

10,000 Birds

A few Eurasian Tree Sparrows land by my car as I am scanning for Purple and Squacco Herons , Pygmy Cormorants and Black-necked Grebes in their brilliant breeding plumage. While my Big Day was already over by mid-afternoon, it did help my mood and provided a lot of opportunities to test the new binoculars.

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