10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

All around Porto Lagos (220 km / 140 mi east of Thessaloniki) lies the largest national park of Greece, Nestos Delta and the Vistonida-Ismarida lakes and lagoons complex, founded in 2008. The area is one of the most important in Greece for birds, comprising more than 270 species.

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Greece Pelicans Birds Otters 217

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The Prespa Lakes National Park in Greece is well hidden among the mountains at the triple border with Albania in the west and the FYRO Macedonia in the north. One of them has a satellite transmitter around its neck and quite a few have white collars marked with the letter “G” (for Greece?) and dual digits. 02, G04,06,07,40 and G74.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I first visited Kerkini and this bird-rich region of northern Greece 15 years ago, and have been returning regularly ever since. There’s usually a wintering Peregrine around A resting Sparrowhawk Wild Cat – note the thick, bushy tail. It was photographed on the east embankment.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Buffalo 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

It was more than 50 years before I was to see another lynx, not in the Doñana, but in the Sierra Morena mountains to the north, which is now the best place to see these handsome cats in the wild. A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece.

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 218

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2010

Long before CAT scans, X-rays, blood samples and colonoscopies, physicians used the good sense they were born with: their sense of smell. In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). Liver disease?

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Rats Humane Greece Rodents 100

Reddit Animals

MARCH 1, 2023

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Greece Homelessness Cats Adoptable 52

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2023

Apparently, in early Greece, the wryneck was associated with charms and potions intended to recover the lost affection of a lover ( source ). It’s a unique bird, even its scientific name is wonderful …” Recently, I watched a wryneck carrying two snails on its body. Ask ChatGPT, not me.

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