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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). At the time we were looking, without success, for White-backed Woodpeckers.

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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. I dipped it some years back — I am not aware of any local sightings since, and to this day have never seen it. After that period it was observed very rarely as a vagrant.

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