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The Ole’ Bucket List

10,000 Birds

The list kinds crystalized during my first big trip, on which I knocked off my two big targets (the manta ray and whale shark) but since then beyond seeing an antelope (and then many other different kinds), it hasn’t budged much at all. A Leopard in India by Yathin Krishnappa (CC). A beaked whale. Any beaked whale.

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Rooiels – Funny Name, Serious Birding

10,000 Birds

I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on my home patch of Cape Town, South Africa. So much so that the two species are placed within their own family, Chaetopidae. Even leopards still live here and occasionally terrorize the African Penguin colony at nearby Betty’s Bay.