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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. It arrived near the border of Guiana and Suriname in 1877, though it wasn’t until the 1930′s before this species became really established in the new world. coromandus.

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The Sunbitterns of Costa Rica

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Or the time in Suriname that we drove 3 hours to film Capuchinbirds only to learn that he left our video camera back at the lodge (next to an empty vodka bottle!). Sunbitterns like to hunt in clear, fast-flowing streams But probably the least known aspect of the Sunbittern’s life history is its breeding and nesting.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

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In recent years he authored the first English-language guidebook to Suriname and an overhauled 600-page guidebook to Sri Lanka, both published by Bradt. These include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique and Rwanda, among others, all of which are regularly updated for new editions.

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