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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

10,000 Birds

However, this law has had little effect on curbing the illegal trapping. The mistake has its origins in 1878, when ornithologists Henry Tristram and Allan Hume both collected specimens of what was then described as Hume’s owl. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and is a crucial stop-over for migrating birds.

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