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As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe

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A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. Many years ago the journal British Birds published a note from an observer who had watched Turnstones scavenging from a human corpse that had washed up on the tideline. As the tide fell, it exposed sand banks that attracted small parties of garrulous Brent Geese.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

10,000 Birds

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is not only rare in Serbia, but also overlooked among numerous Greater White-fronted Geese. We, humans, seem to be quite hostile neighbours to other life forms around us. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens. Dalmatian Pelican by Sebastian Bugariu.

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