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Northern White-breasted Hedgehog Erinaceus roumanicus

10,000 Birds

Jeff Gordon and I were wandering around the seriously disturbed habitat behind the airport hotel we stayed in outside of Budapest when a bizarre mammal about the size of an opossum crossed the path in front of us. “What the #*$% was that?!?!” We visited Hortobágy National Park, the Bükk Hills and places in between.

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