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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! we will kill it!”, These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here.

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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

Due to some misallocation of bird species, I saw the Bateleur Eagle near Malelane, not near Bateleur Camp, where a more professional marketing team would have located the bird. Wahlberg’s Eagle is named after the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg who first started studying chemistry (!) but later switched to forestry (?).

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