10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

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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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the UK we have a mere three resident woodpeckers, but in the vicinity of Kerkini it’s not difficult to find all of Europe’s peckers except the Three-toed. 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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Greece Pelicans Geese Buffalo 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

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 2017 Eagles Otters 214

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

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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Brazil Otters Reptiles Birds 118