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Birding by Volunteering

10,000 Birds

My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles. Nothing forms bonds like rolling around in bird…uh… waste. Amazing stuff.

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Birdmania at the Cano Negro Bird Count, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Last weekend, I went on a birding binge. I spent two full days where the birding was near constant, and, just to keep the binoculars from being neglected, topped it off with another half day of birding on our drive back from Cano Negro, Costa Rica. Most of the counting was done from boats.