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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Tourism money is vital to the survival of the world’s Mountain Gorillas, but at the same time that tourism has to be carefully managed to not harm them either, either by disturbance or through human carried diseases.

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The Dove Who Came In From the Cold

10,000 Birds

After checking with a docent to make sure that the bird wasn’t a hazard to the collection I watched it for some time – I even tried to take its picture, but the lighting was less than optimal and the camera in my phone somewhat potato-like. The pigeon seemed very comfortable.

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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

White-chested Tinkerbird is one of Africa’s avian mysteries, known only from a single specimen collected in 1964 at Mayau in north-west Zambia, close to the borders of Angola and the DRC. Benson to collect birds. This image is from Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park, Uganda.

Ethiopia 229