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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys. At the end of the workshop we all went birding, to further test the glasses of our choice.

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The most important book about European birds in this century

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The adventure of the second European Breeding Bird Atlas, or EBBA2, was the topic of one of my first posts here at 10,000 Birds: In a warm Catalonian March, Barcelona is filled with sunlight and full of Rose-ringed and Monk Parakeets. In a very short time, we get two responses, two birds calling from opposite directions.

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Catalonian Spring

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It is the last day and the final presentation – I am taking binoculars out, coffee – goodbyes to the colleagues and a great workshop and off I go to meet Steve West, a local guide, and explore the area. A pair of these eagles breed nearby, but this bird shows no wish to reappear and show itself better. Llobregat Delta.

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Homage to Catalonia

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It is the last day and the final presentation – I am taking binoculars out, coffee – goodbyes to the colleagues and a great workshop and off I go to meet Steve West, a local guide, and explore the area. A pair of these eagles breed nearby, but this bird shows no wish to reappear and show itself better. Steve answers: Bonelli’s Eagle !

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Birding Deliblato Sands: What I have seen and what I haven’t

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They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay. They are quite a rare breeding species in Serbia, declining as we speak, but one pair breeds nearby.

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The Whistle Blowers

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Known breeding localities are now limited to only a few of the islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Antigua/Barbuda.

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Call B for Birder or Waterfowling East Anglia

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It breeds in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard and overwinters (singly and at mountain top hot springs – if Hollywood is to be trusted) along the coasts of northern Europe. discovered that the usual flock of several thousand Pink-footed Geese was wintering in the Broads National Park. There were ten times more birders than birds! (I

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