Sun.May 26, 2024

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Seabirds at Bass Rock

10,000 Birds

Global BirdFair is an extraordinary sight that, up until 2022, we had only heard tales of. So, Erik and I decided we would have to see it for ourselves. The first time we experienced it, we flew into Leicester and took the short drive over. Then, when we chose to go back in 2023 to see if there was a difference between the two years, we planned to fly in and out of Edinburgh so that we could explore a new place.

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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

10,000 Birds

By Clive Finlayson Growing up in Gibraltar, it is impossible not to notice large birds of prey, in the thousands, overhead. That, and his father’s influence, got Clive hooked on birds from a very young age. His passion for birds took him eventually to the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at Oxford University where he read for a DPhil, working with swifts and pallid swifts.

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