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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. It also contains two massive national parks and several Important Bird Areas. Hamar mother and child.

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

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This land has gone through extensive ecosystem destruction from farming cattle and soybeans. Suddenly in the middle of the soybean fields there was a group of Lesser Rheas that were approaching the road. Suddenly in the middle of the soybean fields there was a group of Lesser Rheas that were approaching the road. Lesser Rheas.

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Finding an Asian Openbill in Singapore-second ever record!

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Arriving in Singapore we soon collected our bags and got ourselves a NETS card for travel on public transport and to also use in supermarkets. We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. Due to the fact it was not yet 07:45am it was a S$1.09

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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Birding the Kruger Park (5): Pafuri area part 1

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He collected in … the Belgian Congo, where he died of hemorrhagic fever at Bangala … According to his obituary in The Times (8 November 1890), he witnessed a cannibal banquet in the Upper Congo and was accused by Stanley of instigating it.”

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. At first one, then two more, then one more, and altogether some 6 or 7 dolphins were coming to the surface.

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