A couple of images of European Ground Squirrels (Ziesel, Spermophilus citellus), one of Austria’s most endangered vertebrate species, from the Seewinkel. The youngsters already left the burrows!
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Darwin’s Finches
Seeing Darwin’s Finches (the Geospizinae) was one of the great highlights of my trips in 2012. This group of 13 or 14 species of passerine birds (sources differ) is native to the Galápagos archipelago (with …
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