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The Joys of Urban Birding in SE Europe

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Oh, the joys of urban birding… Add half a dozen Ferruginous Ducks (cover photo), two Whiskered and 40 Black Terns to the previous picture, plus an eagle, an immature White-tailed Eagle. Almost the size of a hare, it is more clumsily jumping, than running… and that tail… it is the European Otter!

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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

10,000 Birds

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. This is clearly one of its first flights – it may have even taken the first flight today!

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