Ducks Greece Killing Raised 
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
I first visited Kerkini and this bird-rich region of northern Greece 15 years ago, and have been returning regularly ever since. Kerkini does, of course, attract tremendous numbers of wintering wildfowl, including huge numbers of Common Pochard , by far the most numerous of the diving ducks.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin.
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