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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

10,000 Birds

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. As a proof, two Dalmatian Pelicans are flying low above us, while a Bluethroat disappears into the nearby bush. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The closer one raises her head, than lies back.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.