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Europeans can vote to have birds on their next banknotes (swg-empire.de)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/birding@lemmy.world
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Every European (and I guess non-Europeans as well) can vote what our next Euro design will be: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

About ten different designs are available and about half of them feature birds instead of boring people.

I really like the bird designs as they symbolise freedom without borders. Hope one of them gets chosen in the end.

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Funny, I was about to say I've never seen a single one of the spieces depicted in the image. 😂

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Well the 50 is a white stork, actually the national bird of my country :3 we have (or used to have back when I learned it in school) the highest nesting density of storks :3 and also a holiday about celebrating storks

    The others I believe are:

    • 5 - scarlet wallcreeper
    • 10 - kingfisher
    • 20 - european bee eater
    • 100 - avocet
    • 200 - northern gannet

    I've seen a few of those in the wild, but definitely not all :3

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Portugal? All the storks and enormous nests balanced on everything is hilarious, I love it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Lithuania :3

    We have the same thing with stork nests on everything tho

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's cool. Very much on my list of places to visit. Was in Portugal last week which is why that came to mind first.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    It's always interesting to me when people choose to visit here :3 I suppose cause all of it is quite standard to me lol

    If you do come, I hope you visit more than just vilnius tho. A lot of people seem to just stick to it, and not see any of the rest of the country ^^

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That would be my bird criticism too. I recognized 4/6 people on the notes but have no idea what these birds are or where they live. I would expect crows, magpies, swallows, seagulls or even those green parakeets that are technically invasive but are all over Europe.

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