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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

10,000 Birds

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. Panama’s eight per cent is close to Nearctic (North America and Greenland with 8 %) and Palearctic (Eurasia, Middle East and North Africa with 10 %).

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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

10,000 Birds

I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa. On a twenty-four hour birding bender that had already netted me two state birds, including an amazing Burrowing Owl in Queens , I took a stop at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge to see what was around. I saw 863 species of birds, bringing my life list to 1,820.

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Cheetah sets new world speed record!

4 The Love Of Animals

Compare that to the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, whose fastest time for the same distance is 9.58 The Cincinnati Zoo has supported cheetah conservation in Africa for more than 20 years, and thankfully, cheetahs are the one species that has a chance to out run extinction.”.

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Updates and Corrections

Animal Person

An update that of course thrills me is that Jamaica has decided to not grant permission for the introduction of greyhound racing (read the l etter from Bruce Golding, Jamaica's Prime Minister--it's only two sentence long, but it does the job). A less-than-thrilling update is that South Africa is still considering dog racing.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

10,000 Birds

Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). The year list has reached 2403 , a boost of 174 and the life list now stands at 3875 after beats’ efforts in Indonesia, South Africa and China added 39 ticks.

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Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed

10,000 Birds

It takes a little longer for the hordes pouring out of Africa to reach the north of England, at least a week, often two after the first migrants make landfall on southern coasts before we get even a sniff of anything that has been near a Wildebeest over the winter. Join Mike in Jamaica!

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Ringer Anhinga and Darters (Anhingidae) The Anhinga and three darter species inhabit warm, freshwater regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or Reed Cormorant ( Microcarbo africanus ), Nairobi, Kenya © David J. What you “know&# is probably wrong!

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