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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Bird Uganda Safaris is one of the leading ground handler of the International birding companies in the USA, Australia, South American and Europe. Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well.

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Mistletoebird family

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The raising of these young chicks is not over yet! We are really enjoying the experience of observing another bird species that is black, white and red breed in our local patch. The male Mistletoebird called out as we approached and the chicks continued to call out for more food. Mistletoebird chicks out of the nest.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Broome’s wettest June on record

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Thankfully it did not last long and then brought some surprising birding opportunities that we normally only experience in our Wet Season. Of significance were the large number of White-necked Herons , which had taken to balancing on fence-lines, gates and any raised growth due to the flooded land. Birding Australia Broome'

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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The studies range from reconstructing the penguin evolutionary tree from fossil bones to development of technology for tracking penguin movements underwater to surprising discoveries about the character and function of penguin coloration to an analysis of how Little Blue Penguins recovered from the crash of the sardine stocks in Australia.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Once I am moderately successful, I often find such photos quite pleasing.

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Oystercatchers and octopus

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Further to the south the birds move into Roebuck Bay or to the reef at the far end of Cable Beach, where they raise their chick. We await the tide dropping as eagerly as the Pied Oystercatchers , but whilst they go looking for food we are exploring just for the experience of the amazing creatures that are present.

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