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“The Wise Hours” — a review

10,000 Birds

Readers of this site already know about this extraordinary place from Dragan’s evocative post of November 2018, “ The 701 Long-eared Owls of Kikinda.”)

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

And I didn’t pay enough attention because one very dark eagle flew by at the same time, an adult Greater Spotted Eagle. Two hundred yards further, we found another Greater Spotted Eagle! These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here.

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