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How much time do you devote to birding?

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Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy).

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How much time do you devote to birding?

10,000 Birds

Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy).

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Birding: Time and Effort

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Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. Recently, I did a bit of embankment birding, nailing 65 species (several of them firsts for the season, European Bee-eaters among them – always exciting).

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. ” [loc.3014,

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Greenland’s Arctic Tern

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There is a total of 235 different bird species in Greenland, most of them are migratory birds with approximately 60 species breeding within the land. The eider is the most common bird for hunting and eating, it lives near all of Greenland’s coasts and breeds on small islands such as Kitsissunnguit. Source: Shutterstock ).