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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. It has never visited these parts of Serbia before. I dipped it some years back — I am not aware of any local sightings since, and to this day have never seen it.

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