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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. 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. The Telia Lake.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Lucky for us, world-traveler Tim Ryan of From the Faraway, Nearby was good enough to provide a profusely-illustrated account of his visit to Tambopata as a volunteer in 2008. Is this one of the ornithological highlights on the planet?

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