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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

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We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. For many birders, the Pel’s Fishing Owl roosts in a lofty position on just such a list. Sure they are uncommon and tough to find.

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The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish

4 The Love Of Animals

The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish. But there was never anything as fascinating as the Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish. My sons and I have had little luck with Siamese fighting fish. Well, as close a bond as a man can form with a Siamese fighting fish. by Garth Stein. And then disaster struck.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. Salvin’s Prion.

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Birding in a Hellmouth

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The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. I have, for the most part, been able to avoid caves since that experience. It matters not a jot that I couldn’t say which was which or that fear is petty much my only real memory of the experience.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

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I can speak from experience that this place should only be accessed by a 4 x 4 vehicle. This forced us to abandon the vehicle and walk the 15 miles to the nearest village where a bush-mechanic walked back with us at night to our vehicle and temporarily patched the hole.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Dog and Fish: Improbable Friends. Fish are often difficult to identify with or feel for.

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