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Birding Jonuta Road, in Tabasco, Mexico

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As such, it offers some unique birding experiences. Since I have limited experience with eastern Mexico, and even less experience with tropical species, I enthusiastically accepted. I told Rolando I didn’t feel I was really in Tabasco, because I had yet to see a cow standing in water. Good choice!

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A First Christmas Bird Count Experience

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Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Tags: Asides , christmas bird count • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Thanks for visiting!

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

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Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. On our last morning, we drove out to the Carson Lake Wetlands , following long and dusty trails through cow pastures and marshy terrain. Don’t try this at home, kids.

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Spectacular Birding on Cerro Montezuma

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Several generations of Leopoldina’s family operate the lodge, serving delicious food and hospitality in a clean, comfortable environment. Swooping Swallow-tailed Kites and a variety of warblers, brush-finches, seedeaters, and ovenbirds, not to mention exquisite non-avian fauna and flora (including a rampaging cow!),

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Common Moorhens at Hannover Zoo

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At these places they are neither shy nor reed-dependent but can often be seen grazing on lawns like cows or swimming on open ponds no less visible than a rubber duck in a bath tub. The following pictures were taken at Hannover Zoo recently, showing just that – feeding and preening, for a family-friendly birding experience.

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Birding Suriname and Brownsberg

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The Nikon’s BATV crew flew in to Paramaribo where we were graciously hosted at the luxurious Hotel Krasnapolsky for a night so that we could experience the culture and fun of the capital city. The first sounded like a cross between a hoarse cat and a cow in distress. This small member of the toucan family is a stunner.

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On Food/Lifestyle Disputes At Home

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Friends or family members who are not devoted to the environmental cause can become irritated by life choices they view as ostentatiously self-denying or politically correct. Problems arise when the individuals in the family (or couple) are at different points in their awareness of actions and purchases that affect the environment.

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