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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. International teams compete for 6 days and 5 nights with the express purpose of recording the most bird species, by sight or by call, while the clock ticks down. Think the Birding World Cup or the International Birding Open.

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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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Eight days with 20 of the world’s top birding guides looking for some 1,000 species and three dozen endemics. You can see as many hummingbird species as the folks at Magee Marsh are seeing warbler species—during 25 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. As the rally tore through its itinerary, the species piled up.

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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. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. So, when British natural history writer Jon Dunn (not to be confused with U.S.

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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. And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. And sun bears. It’s what I dream of every Monday morning. And mosquitos. And leeches.

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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.