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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India.

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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

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During this year’s competition, each team raised money for – and awareness of – the illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus , a fitting cause for a race that celebrates the miracle of migration. Since 1974 it has been illegal to harvest birds there with mist-nets and limesticks. Rare footage of Desert Tawny Owl.

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Highlights from Costa Rica, Global Bird Weekend, 2020

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And especially when the event can be leveraged to promote conservation, birds, and help with the fight against the illegal bird trade? Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo is always tough and unreliable, we got collectively lucky when a local birder found one at Rincon de la Vieja , one of the better sites for this shy species in Costa Rica!