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Birding – An Extreme Sport

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All these people were legends – I barely scraped past 2000 in half a century. It has all Big Five animals and a whole lot of other grumpy mammals. Having learned from my Namibian experience I walked away briskly. So, apart from large vicious mammals and venomous snakes, what else can possibly go wrong while birding?

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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

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One study looked at nest failure of ground-nesting birds – while one of the failures was caused by predation by a Red-billed Blue Magpie, 83% of all failures were due to predation by mammals. I think I pointed out in previous posts that mammals are kind of evil. Bad manners, I think.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. ” * Nevertheless, the myth continued. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.

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Swimming with dolphins

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I had my first swim with Inshore Bottlenose Dolphins in Northland’s Bay of Islands back in 2000, and it was a tripy experience. Leaving from the harbour on boats were tours to swim with one of New Zealand’s most endangered mammal species, the Hector’s Dolphin. South Banks Peninsula.

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

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Some people might still argue whether such a thing as a “birding community” exists, but anyone who shared avian observations on the internet in the late 2000′s and beyond could have been part of a vibrant bird blogging community. The great struggle then, as now, was reaching new readers and cultivating an engaged audience.

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Introducing the African Birding Beat

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Madagascar’s mammals are equally remarkable; over 100 species of endearing lemurs and bizarre carnivores amongst them! Since 2000 Adam has been the sole owner and managing director of Rockjumper and has also founded Indri – Ultimate Mammal Voyages (2008) and Oryx – Worldwide Photographic Safaris (2010).

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. By the year 2000, the number of tigers in the wild went down to 8,500 and by 2012, it plummeted to a mere 3,200 individuals. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger'

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