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Enjoying the Orange Peril

10,000 Birds

Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) It was the advent of lightweight, mirrorless cameras that saw me finally abandon digiscoping, while the Panasonic camera I used didn’t have a great pixel count. A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. Dalmatian pelicans : digiscoping flying birds is a challenge.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. It holds the large food item at the tip of its bill and throws its head back quickly, swallowing it whole. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”. Unfortunately, the other hornbill species are not nearly as adaptable.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.