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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of January 2012?

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What else is nice is the prospect of seeing brand new birds in beautiful habitat. Northern White-crowned Shrike in Tanzania by Walter Kitundu a. Eucalyptus deglupta is a psychedelic beauty, with stunning, striated bark that spans nearly every color of the rainbow. Take a moment to check out how trippy this tree is. Nice, right?

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A Brief Tour of Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

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While Uganda does not have the international reputation of its neighbors Kenya and Tanzania, the experience there is no less extraordinary – and in many ways, particularly for the birder, it’s even more so. It’s still hard for me to wrap my head around this trip, my first on a brand new continent.

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