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Don’t Feed The Birds!

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Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese? Do you toss the bird your leftovers? Do you feed the birds then?

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

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It’s the boar hunting season. We are approaching a large mudbar with some more Dalmatian Pelicans… and a flock of geese… dark, round-headed and short-billed, elongated white blaze on their faces – threatened and declining Lesser White-fronted Geese ! We started from the village at, perhaps 50 m a.s.l.

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South Florida Specialties Birding

10,000 Birds

En route to our next stop we slowed down next to a park and spotted the now countable Egyptian Geese. Then he pointed out a Least Tern that came in to hunt for fish on the pond as if I would be assuaged with another bird that has “Least” in its name! And could we just do a quick drive through at a fast food joint?

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