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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

10,000 Birds

That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? 80% of the national park is covered by forest, 85% of it consisting of Norway Spruce , Silver Fir and the European Beech. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years.

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Time and the Tilting Earth*

10,000 Birds

That’s about 400 hundred people in Canada, 2600 in Greenland, 2500 in Svalbrad (Norway), and 700 or so in Russia. It is often quiet and still, but filled with the hustle and bustle of birds trying to cram a breeding season into an abbreviated summer. Those lucky few can lay claim to even more rays than us here.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

Lesser Spotted Eagles breed regularly with around 100 pairs in Germany, but unless you know where the territories are you are unlikely to see them. Thanks, Marsh Sandpiper (seen on the right with a redshank on the pic below), your presence was highly appreciated! Lesser Spotted Eagle , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556.

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