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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

And I am inside the southern tip of the western Balkan Dinara-Pindos population range, stretching from Slovenia in the north to Greece in the south, with 2,500 bears. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia dom. Only the Balkan (700 + 2,500 ind.) and Carpathian populations (8,000 ind.) Eurasian Sparrowhawk – Accipiter nisus.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

Having said that, my sentimental journey started without a plan, more by accident, on an AGM of BirdLife Slovenia in Ljubljana in 2005. Deafened by the best rock Yugoslavia ever produced and blinded by the freedoms we enjoyed – paradoxically, without democracy, I couldn’t see it. No, no, they do not serve beer.

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