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Cyprus Delights – Part II

10,000 Birds

One thing that I have learned from repeated spring visits to Cyprus is that no two years are ever the same. Ruffs were by far the most numerous, with as many as 500 birds in view at once. Few birds sport such magnificent breeding plumage as the male ruff, but not a single bird showed more than a hint of this plumage.

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B is for Bunting

10,000 Birds

Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. Regular readers of 10,000 Birds will be familiar with Kai Pflug’s great photographs of the variety of buntings that migrate through Shanghai). This is a Balkan special, and a bird I know well from Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus.

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