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Crested Serpent Eagle

10,000 Birds

FRIM (Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia) is open to the public who come to bathe in waterfalls, cycle, walk, picnic and attend educational events, but most of this takes part in a small section close to the entrance. Go now while the chance is still available. The majority of the forest is off-limits to the casual wanderer/birdwatcher.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

But, you never get the feeling that you are reading an EDUCATIONAL book. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Several features emphasize the book’s educational side. Hurricane Hugo rips through the island in 1989.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo.