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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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She is an excellent mother, managing not only to feed her four large cubs, but their visiting father One-eyed who comes by every now and then (he has two more families and being the good father he is, visits them all regularly, usually around lunch time). Very dusty Swarovski CLs.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk! Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO). Cuba is on my mind.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. million hectares in 2007. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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His goal, he says in the Preface, is to fulfill a childhood desire to learn more about a stern figure in a family photograph, a mysterious man with impressive but largely undocumented achievements. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book. But this is not a hagiography.