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Birding northern Serbia, or a sudden bird tour

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noticed a Eurasian Stone-curlew , which I dipped and, as we were leaving, one male Red-footed Falcon waved us goodbye. On our way south, we will see another Little Owl squatting on a road sign, and a flock of 7 Red-footed Falcons circling above the road. Red-footed Falcon by Martin Mecnarowski/Wikimedia Commons.

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Visit the Macaw Lodge in Costa Rica

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Post Apocalyptic Steampunk Birding

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Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. Peregrine Falcon. For the most part, vultures occupied the sky. Little Blue Heron. Black Vulture.

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Birdwatching the Okavango Delta

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We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. We will explore the dry savannah for korhaans, bustards, lapwings, Ostrich and smaller birds like waxbills and firefinches and we’ll look for Dickinson’s Kestrel , Lanner and Red-necked Falcons.

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Horus Aged Ales: Osprey’s Fresh Catch

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There isn’t much in the way of “official” information about Horus Aged Ales, a brewery founded in 2015 by an ambitious homebrewer named Kyle Harrop, who still works by day as an accountant in the aerospace industry. Peregrine Falcon , Merlin , and American Kestrel – I look forward to reviewing these if I can get my hands on them.

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Secrets of the Swamps

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Birding was difficult from the road as birdsong was often overshadowed by the deafening roar of a truck thundering past or some industrial device whirring into being. I spun around just in time to catch a hulking Peregrine Falcon rocketing by.

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Birding on Steroids or the Kerkini Lake in 10 Pictures

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Beside Andrea Bonetti, the guide from Natural Greece, there were four more bird guides coming from some of the leading tour operators in the industry. Scan of the ridge reveals a distant but definitive Peregrine Falcon. As it turned out, I was the only travel writer of the group. Picture 4: Common Cuckoo – Cuculus canorus.

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