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Birding Botswana’s Borders

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I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. Yellow-billed Stork.

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The return of the Old Man

10,000 Birds

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”. Here they were easy to overlook.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

10,000 Birds

172 lists were shared and 1004 species were seen, both records for October, so well done beats! Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. has reached 54. 01 Oct 2019.

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