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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

10,000 Birds

How do you find lions in Africa? Yet, we didn’t get far when a smallish falcon flew over the dyke and landed on a log in the mud. 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.

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