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Birding northern Serbia, or a sudden bird tour

10,000 Birds

In front of us, the swaying green sea of rolling grassland with reed-overgrown depressions, an occasional herd of sheep and shepherds’ cottages, a tall-grass hillock (often an ancient burial mound), miniature Black Locust groves with their rookeries, a sunny sky… and the two of us with our eyes open wide. who dipped it).

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Greater Rheas: Germany’s new Big Bird

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It is not unusual to drive by a farm building and see a bunch of Greater Rheas on the farm’s fenced-in pasture next to sheep or goats. They might have a negative impact on local flora, invertebrates and small rodents, either directly or indirectly through competition for food. But again, there’s no data to back it up.

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