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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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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

The first of the series premiers June 10th, 2012. In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. We are so excited about this new mini-series from National Geographic!

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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. In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. The Telia Lake.

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Be Careful What You Wish For: A Punter’s Guide to the World Birding Rally

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They didn’t say, when you hear owls calling from an Utcubamba roadside at noon, bear in mind that Rich Hoyer can produce a full range of geographically appropriate pygmy-owl vocalizations without so much as moving his lips. Read James’s account of the 2012 Birding Rally and Alfredo’s account of the 2013 Birding Rally.

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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. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I

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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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New Jersey Birds and Beyond: A Brief Book Review

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For our family members and friends who are not obsessed with molt and migration, we need titles which sometimes take the form of “coffee-table books”. Photographs of living things that are not birds—Black Bear, Snapping Turtle, Famliar Bluet, Common Sulphur—are included in each chapter, especially the last three.