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The return of the Old Man

10,000 Birds

According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.

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Birding Botswana’s Borders

10,000 Birds

I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. Yellow-billed Stork.

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