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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g. It is February and evenings are cold. Against snakes,” he said.

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. India (1180 / 1171). Map by BirdLife International.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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Orange-headed Thrush

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia. In the Z.c.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

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Nate’s best was also a rarity in India. Second, I was in India, which, had you told me even one month prior that I’d be going to India, I would have said you were crazy. My fiance and I drove nearly two hours to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in rural Indiana to watch them come in for the evening.

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