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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

10,000 Birds

The best season for the north-west circuit is February to May, during the rains when most birds breed. The greatest wildlife spectacles in the world! With the Wildebeest migration (calving season is January to February), this park is considered to offer one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the world. Lake Nakuru.

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Secrets of the Swamps

10,000 Birds

Within Nariva Swamp is Bush Bush Wildlife Sanctuary, a sandy, low-lying peninsula populated by palms, strangler figs, and other hardy forest trees. On Bush Bush, the main attraction is undoubtedly the pair of native primate species: Red Howler and (Trinidad) White-fronted Capuchin, the latter being critically endangered.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

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