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Stamps in a Weathered Passport

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And if you take this phrase, “stamps in weathered passports,” my interpretation is that the experiences from travel are the “stamps” as sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, on your “passport,” or soul. Hannah overlooking a valley Traveling into Lesotho from the Sani Pass is an experience more than just the journey to the top.

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. It must be frustrating.

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Photogenic Birding in San Vito, Costa Rica

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In large part, my lack of full birding national coverage stems from another feature shared with the state that harbors the New River gorge, and one that helped create conditions that can result in mega diversity. In general, “photogenic” pretty much sums up the San Vito experience. Dang, this jade bird is so beautiful!

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Common Buzzard Eating Shish Kebob

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Instead of even trying to fight the sun I decided to do a loop around the bird, which looked to be feeding on something, with the hope that I could get the sun at my back and the buzzard in front of me. Who knew meat on a stick was in the diet of Buteo buteo ? It was an awesome experience and one that I wish that everyone could have!

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. White article on bird feeding stations. I just count the wings. A tradition was born.

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Chasing the Sun for a Cassowary

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The Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), often touted as the most dangerous in the world due to its powerful kick when provoked, is a large, flightless bird native to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Australia, New Guinea, and a handful of islands in the Moluccas.

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Puffin Trip in Maine

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For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Or perhaps it’s just a bird with cold feet? It was an experience I won’t soon forget, and neither will my poor, frozen family. (We Black Guillemots are awesome.

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