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St. Michael’s summer birding along the Danube in Serbia

10,000 Birds

En route, the first wintering flock of Greylag Geese is already here, followed by Crested Larks , Corn Buntings , Eurasian Linnet , Great Grey Shrike , Common Snipe , Pygmy Cormorant , and Eurasian Marsh Harrier close by. They are colourful and small, some mere newspaper kiosks transported here, barely big enough for a bed and fishing rods.

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Hagerman NWR: Birding Amidst Oil Wells

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) manages the wildlife aspects of the unit while another federal agency (in this case the U.S. In 1951, oil was discovered and facilities were installed to allow for extraction and transport of the oil. (I have been to 22 of 35.) Hagerman NWR is an “ overlay refuge ” meaning that the U.S.

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