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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

10,000 Birds

I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. And the target was a Western Rock Nuthatch (above), a species that lives from the Balkans east to Iran, which cooperatively called for attention from the wall the very moment I got there. Then 20 more joined them, so I entered 100 in my notebook.

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