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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

Several Ferruginous Duck and one surprising male Goosander , four Glossy Ibises , Common Kingfishers , Eurasian Hopooes , a high note of a Penduline Tit somewhere from the willows along the canal, Eurasian Spoonbills , European Turtle Doves gently purrring …. The moat would protect the islets and allow the birds to start nesting earlier.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

10,000 Birds

We’ll take these two similar, yet very different groups of birds separately. The program has been successful enough that some of the birds have been released back into protected areas in California, Arizona, and across the border in Baja, but the species is still far from out of the woods. millions years ago. New World Vultures.