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Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal

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On the contrary, if you are a traveling birder, you might just find your next birding destination right here on 10,000 Birds. The reasonable rates really do not adequately reflect both the level of comfort and the personalized service ethic. PIP is situated right on a beautiful lake -- the place to be when its hot!

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People Who Want to Ban Circus Animals are Bozos?

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Henican writes: The truth of the matter, of course, is that most city kids will never have the chance to visit the wilds of Africa and Asia, assuming there are any wilds left in the decades to come. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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What makes a good bird guide?

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I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. I remember one guide in the south of Africa. In my eyes, what counts is how someone plays the game. Bhola Mawaskar is a man of his word.

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Crossbill Guides: Interview with Dirk Hilbers

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Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g. Does this sound vague?

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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. Here is a little comparison (Black Mamba courtesy of Tad Arensmeier and Wikipedia , and excuse the horrible prinia crop): Disturbing, right? Just don’t try this with a Brown Prinia, unless you have life insurance and a family in need.

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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Ringer Anhinga and Darters (Anhingidae) The Anhinga and three darter species inhabit warm, freshwater regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. These Blasts From The Past Queens Big Day: An Ethical Quandary and More Birds! Wicked, right? Reed Cormorant ( Microcarbo africanus ), Nairobi, Kenya © David J.

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