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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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It’s always worth checking winter flocks of geese for vagrant Red-breasts: these are Russian White-fronts and Barnacle Geese on the Suffolk coast I was well aware of this, as I’ve watched flocks of Red-breasts in Bulgaria, a regular wintering ground for these geese. The photograph below was digiscoped in Bulgaria in February 2007.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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Unlike the previous hotspots, which lie close to Belgrade, the Kompenzacioni bazen lake (literally “compensation pool”), is in the town of Pirot, close to the border with Bulgaria and about 300 km from Belgrade. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, wildlife is still more commonly sold to foreign hunters. A birding year in Serbia.

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