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The Greek Strategy

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Driving from France or Germany to Greece, you are likely to pass through my hometown of Belgrade and continue south following the E75 through the FYRO Macedonia. Have you read my blogs on birding Greece ? That motorway takes you to the Gevgelija (MAK) – Evzonoi (GR) border crossing.

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Weddings and Birds

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She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. Given that their “I do’s” were not until 6:30 p.m. The beach was covered in seabirds.

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Birding the Cyclades: My my, how can I resist you?

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Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. In the next post: the pelican-covered lake Karkini. In the IUCN Red List, it is listed as vulnerable because of the high mortality of nestlings that become victims to rats and of adults that end up as a fishery bycatch.

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Come See Birds and…Everything

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Most of them based in a single attractive, historic, and easily walkable city or town, my tours, under VENT’s Birds, Nature, and Culture rubric, always see plenty of birds: hoopoes and rollers in France, Great Bustards and bean geese in Germany, Fulvous Owls and Black-capped Swallows in Guatemala are just a few examples.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Hunting is also significant during migration and in its wintering range; with an annual toll in France computed at c. Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus. In my native Serbia, pelicans are only vagrants, although in the under-birded southeast, they may be more common than we think. Dalmatian Pelican by Sebastian Bugariu.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. 22 Dec 2019.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). Brown Pelican – Pelecanus occidentalis. has reached 54. Common Loon – Gavia immer. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. 13 Oct 2019. 13 Oct 2019.

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