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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Further reading: Central and European Wildlife by Gerard Gorman (Bradt Travel Guides). House Sparrow – Passer domesticus.

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Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

10,000 Birds

Growing up in central Oregon, allowed me to experience such a diverse amount of habitat, and the wildlife that resides there. The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915.

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