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The Reva Situation

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About the size of a hare, it is more clumsily jumping, than running… and that tail… It was the European Otter ! Then the machines returned, finished the asphalt and started pouring tons upon tons of concrete rubble from many construction sites in the city into the marsh that otter once ran into. Photo by Branislav Dencic.

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Birding Beljarica in August

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I started the campaign for the protection of Beljarica, raising public awareness and collecting more than 10,000 petition signatures, not only because of its Eurasian Otters , White-tailed Eagles , Black Storks , Icterine and Eastern Olivaceous Warblers , etc., but because this large spillway protects the city from flooding.

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Kerkini in Winter

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Otters are regularly reported, but I’ve yet to see one here, but I have had a number of encounters with Wild Cats , which are quite common and may even be encountered during the day. Its author is Steve Mills, the founder of Birdwing, an organisation that has done much to raise awareness of bird conservation in North-East Greece.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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A Wood Stork lands in a tree, while one Neotropical River Otter swims across and climbs a floating log. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

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Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. The challenge is trying to remember them all!

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City Guide: Finding Birds in Belgrade

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Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. no one has reported any more otter sightings since the construction started last year). Her article starts with a bold claim that “no city makes you feel more like a New Yorker than Belgrade.” and am not a lifestyle writer to comment on those claims.

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Birds of Pantanal

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The wide open swampy areas are perfect for easy birdwatching with the transpantaneira road that provides an easy access and becomes a raised platform that birdwatchers use for setting their spotting scopes and huge tripods. It is an eye opener which every birder must see before it its gone.

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