Thursday, February 26, 2009

The land of red kite

In January I started the field work for my PhD and the first place where I went to study wintering raptors was in Basilicata (Southern Italy). The landscape there is wonderful, few people around and a low number of villages. Large open areas and woods on the mountains. The observations were interesting with a good number of raptors wintering there, in particular many red kites. I have seen also many herons along the coastal area and some flocks of cranes.









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