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Emerging birding destinations: Serbia

10,000 Birds

For 3-4 days, opt for the hills, Tresnjica Griffon Vulture Sanctuary and the nearby Tara Mountain National Park with 140 species (not too much, but with Hazel Grouse , Ural , Pygmy and Tengmalm’s Owls , White-backed and Three-toed Woodpeckers among them). Long-eared Owls of Kikinda. Great Bustard Sanctuary.

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Fire and Rain

10,000 Birds

I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? Conservation black-backed woodpecker endangered species fire olive-sided flycatcher' On the whole, people do not value them.

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Little Big Year-Week 37: Settling down in Tucson AZ

10,000 Birds

In addition to the hummingbirds, a few of the other highlights of the morning were the Gamble’s Quail, Inca Doves, Cooper’s Hawk, red-napped Sapsucker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Gila Woodpecker, Bewick’s Wren, White-wing Doves, Plumbeus Vireo , and of course, I finally got a decent photo for the White-breasted Nuthatch. 12 House Finch.

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