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A Most Unexpected Encounter

10,000 Birds

All I still need to learn is how to save them and copy them outside the system, and you kind, patient folk will be able to read about my new Moroccan and Turkish feathered friends (and one from Spain). This duck had a long, ever-so-thin bill, and a surprising brown crest. Which brings me up to the title for this post. But which one?

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. In a second, it disappeared into trees, down towards a rocky gorge, but not before I spotted it. A non-bird Best Bird of the Year?

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