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Visit the Macaw Lodge in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Just two hours from the capital, is situated the Macao Sanctuary, a natural reserve located in the rain forest, in the mountains of the Costa Rican Central Pacific. The birding routes are easily accessible and go through the different micro-ecosystems and different habitats of the sanctuary, finding different species in each of them.

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Birding in the Delhi area Part 1

10,000 Birds

Most of the time was spent in and around Sultanpur, a highly recommended bird sanctuary about 50 km from Delhi. Cattle Egret. Doing what cattle egrets do: communicating with cattle, even though these tend to be somewhat dull conversation partners. Not a great shot, admittedly, but a great-looking bird. Brown Rock Chat.

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Birding Gir National Park, India

10,000 Birds

A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. In the words of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, had Gir not been the Lion sanctuary, it would have been termed one of the finest bird sanctuaries in Gujarat! Two owls and a nightjar! Gir is a fantastic birding area!

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

10,000 Birds

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. 9-mile route that takes you down the prairie uplands and salt marshes that make up much of the Bolivar Sanctuary.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

10,000 Birds

In the 21st century the Egyptian Vulture is an extinct species in Serbia; although we do occasionally have one bird in the Uvac Gorge Griffon Vulture Sanctuary and hope that it might form a pair… Ever since I published a note on the unseen species, I wanted to see it – but the bird was nowhere to be found.

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The Lion Forest of India

10,000 Birds

A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater (above) and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. In the words of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, had Gir not been the Lion sanctuary, it would have been termed one of the finest bird sanctuaries in Gujarat. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis. Two owls and a nightjar!

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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Unlike domestic animals, there are minimal organizations or lobbyists to defend these animals, therefore leaving public opinion to be shaped only by the insincere comments of the cattle industry. Laws remain grossly inadequate as do practices at our nation’s slaughterhouses,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur.