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Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge & Spa

10,000 Birds

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. She was attracted by the number of different species and their colors. She has a very broad knowledge of species. In Ecuador, there are 1.600+ species of birds. Why organize with us your birding/photo tour in Ecuador?

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White Storks Everywhere

10,000 Birds

So, yes, it was Spain. Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra. My life White Stork.

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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

10,000 Birds

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. There are more than 1100 plant species, the most valuable being the 76 endemics. Other species include Roe Deer (also spotted), Wildcat , European Pine Marten and Otter.

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Catalonian Spring

10,000 Birds

In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and India, where he chased that country’s rarest owl. We look forward to many more missives from Dragan. Llobregat Delta.

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Birding Beautiful

10,000 Birds

I can go weeks birding landfill rubbish tips, looking for gulls or wandering through former industrial sites, often dotted with the things that everyday folk left behind, that make up many of my regular birding haunts. It felt like coming home. There is beauty in these places but sometimes I have to look hard to find it.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Stories about animals rescuing members of their own and other species, including humans, abound. Shirley and Jenny: Remembering Friends.

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Homage to Catalonia

10,000 Birds

In a warm Catalonian March (I was about to say Spanish, but among quite a few flags, I haven’t seen a single Spanish one), Barcelona was filled with sunlight and full of Rose-ringed and Monk Parakeets , two charming but alien and invasive species. The road follows the riverbank overgrown with reeds. Steve answers: Bonelli’s Eagle !

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