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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

On another trip, this time to Slovakia, I heard wolves howling, a wonderfully spine-tingling sound. No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense.

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Just had my lifer Cinereous Vulture this morning

10,000 Birds

Before I was born, it used to be a rare breeding species in mountainous areas south of Belgrade, but became extinct after the 1960s due to intensive poisoning of wolves. Stopping for a large cappuccino at a drive-in McDonalds en route, soon I entered a hamlet of a dozen family homes mixed with a dozen small apartment buildings.

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