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Birdwatching in Northern Greece by Steve Mills: Third Edition

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Steve Dudley, a bird guide and author of the Lesvos birding guide, once told me: “Greece is THE premier birding location in Europe for me [and for yours truly as well]. You can get to Athens from pretty much anywhere, and from Athens, you can access anywhere else in Greece easily enough by plane, ferry, or car. What’s not to love!”

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Birding in Greece – birdfinder book review

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Since I live not very far from Greece, I have often combined my vacation there with birding. I have a handful of Greece travel guides (not that I am happy with any of them), but what I always missed was a specialised bird-finding guide. Greece is visited by millions of tourists every year (over 19.5 I chose paper.

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Finding Birds in Northern Greece by Dave Gosney

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Finding Birds in Northern Greece (2015) covers the birdwise very best northeast of the country (provinces of Macedonia and Thrace), from the wetland border with Turkey all the way to the mountains and lakes at the triple border with Albania and North Macedonia.

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Birding the outskirts of Athens, Greece

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Although I visit Greece every year, this is my first time in Athens. I am a birder in search of the feathery attractions of Greece. I was on a new birding tour well organised by Natural Greece and accompanied by their bird guide. Trips Europe Greece warblers' And customs. The sky over a new city. What am I doing there?

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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I was born and bred by the banks of the Lake Kerkini National Park in the north of Greece, one hour from the country’s second largest city Thessaloniki. The post Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece appeared first on 10,000 Birds. My name is Nikos Gallios. Best regards from Kerkini lake!

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The World Before – Lake Karla, Greece

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And then, a few days ahead of our trip, a British birder Clive Mason left a comment under my old blog on birding Lake Karla , just north of the Pelion Peninsula in central Greece, saying that he will be in the area next week. If it weren’t for Clive, I would probably miss the opportunity, but a week later we were there together.

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Birding Greece: Black and white world

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One simply has to love Greece. I told you – one simply has to love Greece. In a split second, the buzzard shows rufous tail and disappears behind some trees. Not a single driver honks his horn, no one reacts to my rude parking style.

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