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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

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The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. In early December of 2012 we had the opportunity to cover this hard-core rally in the south of Peru. We maybe forfeited our chances of winning because of that fantastic hour spent watching the Spectacled bear and its cub.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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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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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. how guides and drivers are found and where they live and what their families and homes look like, birder friends who accompany him on some legs of his quest, and the quirky people he ends up sharing beers with, in bars in huts on stilts. And sun bears.

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