10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. You can probably understand the disappointment of a herpetologist friend of mine when he discovered that his very research transect was now paved. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990.

Rights 176

Rights Serbia Collecting Abandon 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264