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Come to Puembo Birding Garden

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” We are currently offering the opportunity of a lifetime to see a Harpy Eagle that is nesting in the Amazon lowlands, and guides are ready to work! One guide has been taking care of cattle. Another – raising and selling trout to survive. Birding guides have been working hard to keep trails open at the lodges.

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Birding Gir National Park, India

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A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. A little bit further, while watching a large Sambar wallowing in the mudbath, Manoj points our attention to a Crested Honey Buzzard on one and a Changeable Hawk-Eagle on another tree. Maybe his reputation is not without a foundation?

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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

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From 1993 to 2004, biologists released 289 captive-raised whooping cranes into central Florida. One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando.

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The Lion Forest of India

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A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater (above) and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. A little bit further, while watching a large Sambar wallowing in the mudbath, Manoj points our attention to a Crested Honey Buzzard on one and a Changeable Hawk-Eagle on another tree. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

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Unlike other birds that drink one sip at the time and raise their heads to swallow, pigeons and sandgrouses drink like asses, lowering their beaks into the water and taking as much as they like. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis. Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus. Indian Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscicollis.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?). Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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With almost 1200 species of birds in the Capital Region, the house and roof steadily filled with Egyptian Vultures, Barn Owls, Hornbills, Black Ibis, Cattle Egrets, Steppe Eagles , a multitude of songbirds and pigeons , as well as the occasional cobra or palm squirrel.