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Baby Fur Seal Lament – Digital Nomad

4 The Love Of Animals

Baby Fur Seal Lament – Digital Nomad. National Geographic’s “Digital Nomad”, Andrew Evans, is on a trans-Atlantic journey from South America’s Cape Horn to Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Check the video out here.

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Freeze-birding down the Danube

10,000 Birds

The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. “Watch for the dark beaks.” Yeah, right. In this light, all beaks are dark! We counted more than 35 of them, relaxed and fearless, clearly not hunted.

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What is the Christmas Bird Count?

10,000 Birds

The National Audubon Society tells the story best: Prior to the turn of the century, people engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas “Side Hunt”: They would choose sides and go afield with their guns; whoever brought in the biggest pile of feathered (and furred) quarry won.