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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. I say they were butchered, face-off. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind. One may say so.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

10,000 Birds

Given that the Great Spotted Woodpecker can also be seen in Shanghai, it was hardly necessary to pursue it in Inner Mongolia at -20 degrees Celsius. Notice how they never sit together on buses? This applies even more so to the Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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