10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2017

Once upon a time, this narrow forest track was the main international road to Romania, but, back then, Romania was a country behind the curtain and perhaps there wasn’t that much traffic? After the village of Dobra and the third bridge with red rails, 4.3

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Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 119

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The national park ranges some 100 km in length along the right bank of the Danube (the left bank is in Romania), where the river varies in width from 5 km / 3 mi to only 150 m / 500 ft and the mountains rise up to 800 m / 2600 ft a.s.l.

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Serbia Turtles Romania Eagles 186

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Pastures of Great Bustard occupy 6770 ha of extensive steppe, bordered by meadows, pasture, arable fields and seasonally inundated depressions in the north of the country, towards the triple border with Romania and Hungary. That area should be able to support ten times larger population of bustards.

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 104

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Invercargill The bottom of New Zealand and you’d be forgiven for thinking the end of the world is where you’ll be heading if you’re following Argentina, Scotland, Romania or Georgia. In actuality, you’ve lucked out, you’re near The Catlins , a dramatic area of well preserved temperate rainforest.

New Zealand 157

New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Fur 157

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JANUARY 26, 2024

In recent years the majority of the Red-breasted Geese have stayed in Romania, with much smaller numbers in Bulgaria. Last year the peak count of Red-breasts in Bulgaria was 800, with 14,600 over the border in Romania).

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

They do breed in the Balkans, in Montenegro and Greece where I observed them, as well as in Bulgaria and Romania. In my native Serbia, pelicans are only vagrants, although in the under-birded southeast, they may be more common than we think. Dalmatian Pelican by Sebastian Bugariu.

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Montenegro Serbia Greece Bulgaria 200

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JANUARY 9, 2023

If you aim to achieve some kind of immortality, you might do worse than follow the example of Oana Mirela Chachula, a biologist at the National Museum of Romanian History, Romania.

China 147

China Hunting Birds illegal 147

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

I was in Comana, Romania – a town founded by Vlad Tepes also known… Source According to Bram Stoker, it is in Whitby that Count Dracula landed in England. That’s the beginning of the end of that story, but I was standing at the beginning of the beginning.

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Romania Fish Family 217