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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

Birding in Germany was okay during the first half of the year but essentially came to an end in June due to several issues, most significantly a move to a different appartment within Heidelberg. You can see my birding activities abroad and within Germany on the maps at the top of this post. Great Bustard , Havelland, Germany.

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Terror from the Trees

10,000 Birds

If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. North America may currently feel very smug, safe and sound. Yes, there is a bird in this picture. Of course you have already spotted it.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

10,000 Birds

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Here in Germany, where garbage is a costly thing to get rid of, it’s big “sleek and white-collar&# business. Then they get dangerous!

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