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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

Some years ago I was surprised to see one while birding in Matsalu National Park in Estonia. It must have been one of the first to reach Estonia, but I gather that they are now well established there. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting). Barnacle geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic, while the nearest wintering areas also lie along the northern coasts of Europe: the Netherlands and the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden).

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