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Best Birds of my First Year with 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Greater Flamingo, Málaga, Spain. I had to go to southern Spain to knock that one off my bucket list.

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The long and winding road

10,000 Birds

Their journey between the Arctic and Africa takes them from here, across Greenland and the North Atlantic, onto Great Britain and then south through France, Spain, across the Mediterranean and down into Sub-saharan Africa. Nests are usually made in a sheltered cleft in rocks. Baffin Island, where I live, is the core of their range.

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