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Collaborative list – December 2021

10,000 Birds

8 of them sent 153 lists, noting 645 species of bird across 7 countries (Mexico, UK, USA, Serbia, Australia, Costa Rica, Colombia). Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103. Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

10,000 Birds

ospreys are mostly right-“handed,” and carry their food, while flying, in one foot only, to fight off kleptoparasites like bald eagles with the other), and of detail, as well, of the process involved in taking that particular photograph. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird (e.g., Dragan). ==.

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