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Freeze-birding down the Danube

10,000 Birds

The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. Geese from the inside of the submerged, horseshoe shaped island take flight, flushed by one young White-tailed Eagle. Watch for the dark beaks.”

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