10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 236

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2015

Black-headed Gulls somehow managed to build 31 nests on a few dead tree trunks left in the water, but Common Terns require bare soil and not having any on inner dykes – which were a safe haven, they build 16 nests on the higher outer dyke, a place exposed to foxes and stray dogs. Photo by Teodora’s Dad.

Factory 219

Factory Stray Dog Turtles Serbia 219

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos. How did I know that? Hawaiian honeycreeper (or amakihi), Loxops virens.

Animal 114

Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 114