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The Gawky Guillemot

10,000 Birds

This location out at sea not only makes Heligoland one of Europe’s best vagrant traps for Siberian songbirds, its cliffs also hold Germany’s only seabird colonies, with gannets , f ulmars, and – yes – alcids, namely razorbills and common guillemots. Diving in murky waters infested with corkscrew killers ?

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Beaten by an Angry Bird

10,000 Birds

A few years back, I birded northern Greece with a couple from Namibia. The species he was thrilled to see was the Mute Swan. Well, for me – no, but for Nicolaas, Mute Swans were a lifer species. It had been a while since I saw Greater Flamingoes and was thrilled to see them again. All photos (6) by Vladimir Milovanovic.

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