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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

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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

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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. Nanhui Dongtan (China). 01 Oct 2019. Great Egret – Ardea alba. Nanhui Dongtan (China). 01 Oct 2019. 01 Oct 2019.

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Collaborative List – March 2017

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With Corey’s February jollies to The Bahamas (when he should have been at home looking for GGOs), Lichtenstein, Austria and Switzerland our country/province/principality/kingdom/territory list has swollen to 37. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Airport Mangroves. 01 Jan 2017. Tricolored Heron – Egretta tricolor. 01 Jan 2017.

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