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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. Yet, we didn’t get far when a smallish falcon flew over the dyke and landed on a log in the mud. Stopping here and there to scope the mudbar…. Sure, why not.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2

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