~2021
Beginning of batch posted selected pieces from Avian August!
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"Back then, there were so many - and then they would migrate again. These birds are migrants as well...nomads." ~ Tolikas Nitsiakos, shepherd on Mt. Grammos
NOMADS - a wonderful and moving short film made by the Hellenic Ornithological Society
on traditional transhumant shepherds in the mountains of Greece and the endangered Egyptian vulture, of which only five pairs are still to be found in the country.
I was on a walk in the local park with my family on Sunday when I spotted a couple of birds of unfamiliar silhouette perched on high-tension electricity wires a short distance away. There they were, a pair of Egyptian Vultures The species https://ebird.org/species/egyvul1?siteLanguage=en_IN is endangered, and no longer commonly seen in these parts, making it a completely unexpected first-time sighting.