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Greece: Pelicans galore at Lake Kerkini

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It is an early April morning and we are in the hills surrounding Lake Kerkini in the north of Greece. I was on a new birding tour well organised by Natural Greece and accompanied by their nature guide Georgos Spiridakis, who lives on the shore of this lake and specialises in this area, as well as wider northern Greece.

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Analogue vs. digital birding

10,000 Birds

Many people are buying or downloading free bird ID apps, consequently narrowing the market niche and increasing the prices of paper books. Talking of eBird, why don’t they show users the list of the bird families they observed? Cover photo: birding Greece. Then, there are apps. Wouldn’t that be a user-friendly solution?

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