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Definitely NOT beep-beep

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But their broad collection of rather odd sounds (moans, groans, hoots, screeches, and bill rattles) also do not include anything remotely like a “ beep beep “ Popular media getting bird calls wrong. Alas, we did not hear our Roadrunners vocalize, although I have heard sing on one other visit to La Escalera.

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There goes the neighborhood

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But alas, my garden Wilsons have not been seen here on the 4th of April. I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. Fortunately, my own garden is currently being visited by a nice collection of resident species. That is a garden first!

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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