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Finding Dippers in Berlin

10,000 Birds

Here in central Europe, dippers – more precisely the White-throated or European Dipper – are rather common breeding birds in many areas. Therefore, those very few northern winter guests that reach Germany are concentrated in our largest northern German cities, Berlin and Hamburg. Crazy, I know. And you know what?

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

10,000 Birds

There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands.

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