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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

10,000 Birds

This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? Sri Lanka (375 / 436). Why am I here? And where all those birds are? The Oriental realm.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. Still, I was thinking and re-thinking: should I write about the Sri Lanka travel guide now, when that country is in an economic tailspin and even its Prime Minister says the economy has “completely collapsed”? Where to look for the birds?

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