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Birding – An Extreme Sport

10,000 Birds

He subsequently leaves for Peru and gets kidnapped and killed by Sendero Luminoso – the local brand of Maoists. Looking left I saw a big, male buffalo behind the bush. Phoebe Snetsinger was an American birder who first passed the 8,000 species mark. She died in a car accident during a birding trip. Just a few meters away from me.