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The Royal Mile: Birding Fit For a King

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If you are into amazing avian-dense trail experiences, you either want to bird Pipeline Road or want to bird it again. But this type of singular experience can be enjoyed in the Old World as well. Uganda definitely delivers all the fancy forest kingfishers you could want. Chocolate-backed Kingfisher.

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Birding in Honduras, Part II: Pico Bonito Lodge

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There was definitely always the temptation to just sit at the restaurant, sip a warm cup of coffee or tea, and watch the constant antics of parrots, toucans, hummingbirds, and more going about their daily routine. Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. Photo by James Adams.

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The New Neotropical Companion: A Book Review by a Lover of the Neotropics

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And, the next time I travel south (and, there’s an excellent chance that will happen within the next year), I will definitely once more read The New Neotropical Companion , by John Kricher, the latest version of this nature classic. Photographic credits are given with each photo, which I like better than a listing at the back of the book.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). I may have very limited experience with dolphins and no experience with whales, but the illustrations show the entire animal in the way only divers can see it, without a second illustration of the tail shape, something whale-watchers can actually spot from a boat.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? By definition, it’s a feeling that one tries to hide. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. by Marc Bekoff.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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GHANA – Upper Guinea Forest Birding at its best!

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The Kakum Forest Canopy Walkway – a “must experience” for any serious birder As we moved across the first swaying walkway, the distinctive sound of a Rufous-sided Broadbill performing his mechanical whirring display flight could be heard below us. Truly fantastic.

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