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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. It’s the only Dutch eagle. So it was this day.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. Hybrid dabbling duck , Rieselfelder Münster, Germany. Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands.

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