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How to Bird Murchison Falls

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Murchison Falls NP earns all sorts of superlative accolades: most powerful waterfall in the world, top 5 game park in Africa, and some of the most gorgeous sunrises and sunsets you’ve ever seen. What makes this destination so magnificent? Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!!

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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

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Maggie Ciarcia, a solo wildlife rehabilitator in Carmel, NY specializing in small mammals and game birds, received a notice from New York State Electric and Gas that tree trimming was scheduled for her neighborhood and someone would contact her. But back to power companies. No wildlife rescue required. Ah, Europe! Fish & Wildlife Service.

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Scope? To Bring or Not to Bring on a Birding Trip to Costa Rica

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Non-birders assume it’s a camera (can’t really blame them) or even a telescope for looking at the stars, but no, this here piece of fine gear is a spotting scope, the optical game-changing tool that opens bigger doors to birding. You don’t want to miss a Bat Falcon. Maybe You Do Want to Look at Shorebirds and the Sea?

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St. Louis Cardinals Are In The World Series

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Once they squeaked into the playoffs the Cardinals won a tough series with the highly powered and highly favored Philadelphia Phillies and then managed to knock off a divisional rival, the Milwaukee Brewers, in six games to clinch the pennant. I’m predicting the Cardinals in six games, with Albert as World Series MVP.

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California’s Autumn Seas

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And there aren’t just cool birds rocking up, migratory bats do too. A Hoary Bat. Jen and I looking at said bat (piccie by Adam Brown). It was astonishing, like a game drive in the savannah of Africa. Birding bats California Farallon Islands seabirds whales' Mostly Humpback Whales , but also Blue Whales.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. They invariably spend longer in the bush, and look at everything that moves, so it’s hardly surprising that they see more.”

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Saint Michael’s Summer

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This game lasted for a good 15 or 20 minutes, until I managed to see its head with black eye stripe, white supercilium and the black lateral crown-stripe: the Common Firecrest ! Bats flying out of the Lazareva Cave, (c) Jovica Sjenicic. Cover photo: White-throated Dipper, (c) Nerkes Sokol.

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