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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

I was driving along the legendary eastern levee of the Kerkini Lake in northern Greece ( Google Map ) and, listening to the first Golden Oriole flute, was slowly getting closer to a wooded Mt. Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. Out of some 4000 buffaloes still being kept in Greece, about 3000 are at this lake.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

10,000 Birds

I dipped it once before and only this autumn found them in Greece. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. They do breed in the Balkans, in Montenegro and Greece where I observed them, as well as in Bulgaria and Romania.

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