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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds. This time, the Birding Rally’s participants were birding tour companies. Despite the long flight, and the lost luggage, and the 11.5

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

About a month before departure my clients asked me if we were going to the same sites in Ghana as the offerings of another, rather upmarket, birding tour company. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

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