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Disaster in the Sundarbans

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Due to the Ganges floods, their planned weekend of sailing through the labyrinth of channels turned into a week-long stay among about 270 Tigers , according to the 2011 census – the last population inhabiting mangroves and one of the highest concentrations anywhere on the planet! Bangladesh is doing all it can.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. A Garganey showed up in Ohio in 2011 and I had a chance to chase it and I didn’t. I think this might be my best bird of 2016. There were several there, plus Lesser Adjutants.

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