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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced to a few hundred birds.

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Grifalco: Aglianico del Vulture “Gricos” (2016)

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But they are also highly-prized for their ruthless and powerful efficiency in killing – medieval illustrations depict them downing cranes and a twentieth-century painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes shows a falconer’s Gyrfalcon inflicting a lethal strike on a Gray Heron ( Ardea cinerea ).

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