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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. 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. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) Dalmatian pelicans : digiscoping flying birds is a challenge.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g. It is February and evenings are cold. Against snakes,” he said.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

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The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. India founded and, along with Managing Director Peter Leon Mmassey, runs the Tanzanian Children’s Fund. But that was seven years ago. I demanded.

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Birding Jianfengling, Hainan (A-H)

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As the species has a rather large area of distribution including Thailand and India, chances are not too bad in the long run. Hopefully, this is a sign of purposely abandoned development rather than of business failures. The main spa users these days are Grey Wagtails.

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Mendocino Brewing Company: Red Tail Amber Ale

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In the case of Mendocino, it seems that troubles at the top levels of management are also to blame: its majority stakeholder is on the lam in London facing extradition to India to face charges of financial fraud and money laundering.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia. The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit. There is a nice description of the process until the release of the bird into the wild here, with photos.

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