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Flock to Marion

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Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. The Borneo-endemic Chestnut-crested Yuhina is a cooperative breeder – the vast majority of breeding pairs (97%) in a study conducted here at Mount Kinabalu had helpers.

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A Little Win

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Mr White was understandably angry and horrified that in the midst of all of this a British company seemed entirely happy to ship out fee paying customers to shoot Turtle Doves in a foreign country. Further research revealed two more companies in Britain and several others across Europe all engaged in the same shooting tourism.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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Viewer discretion is advised, particularly if you look at the paper in the company of Ashy Tailorbird chicks. And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers?