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Finding Dippers in Berlin

10,000 Birds

Therefore, it is not too far-fetched to call our dippers a commensal species not entirely unlike House Sparrows or Starlings. Therefore, those very few northern winter guests that reach Germany are concentrated in our largest northern German cities, Berlin and Hamburg.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

10,000 Birds

There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. I have therefore added a few pictures to the post, to make sure you’ll know what features to concentrate on when trying to identify the parakeets amongst the Dunnocks, House Sparrows and Treecreepers. And the black chin.

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