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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

4 The Love Of Animals

From Cougars, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards and more, it’s a great time to learn more about these amazing cats! Tune in Sunday to watch the first ever capture and release of an endangered snow leopard in Afghanistan! Snow Leopard of Afghanistan. 9, 2012, at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec.

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A morning in a Kalahari Leopard’s life

10,000 Birds

At 8am on Tuesday 30th August 2012, we arrived at Leeudril after leaving nearby Tweerivieren camp and were thrilled to spot a young female Leopard next to the water tank. You can notice in the above images how the Leopard uses her eye-lids as hoods to protect her sensitive eyes from the bright sun as she sprinted towards us.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

However very few birders ever venture to areas off this well-beaten track, so with this in mind, I decided to explore a fascinating but ornithologically little known corner of Ethiopia in January 2012, to see what surprises awaited me. We spotted a young Leopard and his mother in Mago National Park. Yellow-billed Stork. Mursi woman.

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

10,000 Birds

There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose. Press, Fall 2012. This is the birding adventure book supreme. His humor is wicked funny, especially when pointed at birding itself. This is a travel adventure book. WILDGuides, 2010 (UK), 424p. Forthcoming U.S.

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