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Best Birds of my First Year with 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Plus a few truly difficult species. Sure, it is an introduced species in Germany. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! Iberian Green Woodpecker, Madrid, Spain. Greater Flamingo, Málaga, Spain.

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The long and winding road

10,000 Birds

In the High Arctic we find several migrating species that break that mould. Their journey between the Arctic and Africa takes them from here, across Greenland and the North Atlantic, onto Great Britain and then south through France, Spain, across the Mediterranean and down into Sub-saharan Africa. Both sexes feed the young.

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