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The return of the Old Man

10,000 Birds

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.

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Birding Botswana’s Borders

10,000 Birds

I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either.

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Scaup are the Worst Duck

10,000 Birds

Scaup are so worthless that when you input “I love scaup” into Google you only get four results and three of them are hunting related. And even if such a bird existed and were endangered no one would want to see it. Once in a while, it will fly around a bit and then cross Swiss and German air space.

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