10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

Today, I am writing about another very birdy place and an event that I was very fortunate to have experienced, the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel. Unlike other bird races where participants keep tight-lipped about bird species as mundane as a House Sparrow , this event gives a prize to the team that helps the most.

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Costa Rica Eagles Birds 179

10,000 Birds

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And I have lots of experience with my long lens drawing attention. And it offered up another taxonomic family I had longed to meet, with my first bee-eater , an Arabian Green Bee-eater. Bethany-on-the Jordan is literally a stone’s throw from Israel, which is why we were required to stay with the group and keep moving.

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Jordan Birds Turkey 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

And so South Africa’s fifth largest park came to be (it’s worth remembering that its largest park, Kruger, is the size of Israel) on marginal land that no one in particular could do much with. A Shaft-tailed Whydah, a member of a small African family of cuckoo-finches. And lo, it was good. I never get bored of Giraffes.

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 156