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Birding Greece: Black and white world

10,000 Birds

One simply has to love Greece. There is another raptor over the ridge, light body and wings, dark head and chest – the Short-toed snake Eagle. I told you – one simply has to love Greece. In a split second, the buzzard shows rufous tail and disappears behind some trees. And deep inside I feel it was the Audouin’s.

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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

10,000 Birds

I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. For a split-second I was considering the white morph of the Booted Eagle… while noticing that they do not have long stork necks and that they were… Egyptian Vultures !

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