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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2019)

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But his best of the weekend was easily a bird that he was amazed he could see in Barbados, the long-staying Eurasian Spoonbill that he spotted in its usual hangout, a private impoundment on Congo Road. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. This lake is close to the cave. My photo of the cave was bad, sorry.

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