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A Most Unexpected Encounter

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All I still need to learn is how to save them and copy them outside the system, and you kind, patient folk will be able to read about my new Moroccan and Turkish feathered friends (and one from Spain). Which brings me up to the title for this post. In fact, I have not formally gone birding, at all. But which one?

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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In Europe, Lesser Kestrels are birds of the Mediterranean zone, nesting mainly in Spain and Portugal, southern France, Sardinia, the Balkans and parts of Greece. However, in Southern Spain a small number of birds are resident. This isn’t a new development linked to global warming, but was first noted 80 years ago.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird. Preposterous!

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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

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Christian Boix left his native Spain to become an ornithologist at the University of Cape Town and a tour guide for Tropical Birding, specialising in new destinations throughout Africa. The intrepid could easily discover something totally unexpected if they stray from the beaten path…”.

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