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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

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We don’t really know – if we put aside already well documented habitat destruction. The time quickens, we hurry for lunch (and a Kingfisher Beer – birders staple in India) and back to Semadoh for Bhola Mawaskar. The post THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA appeared first on 10,000 Birds. What are the threats?

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The Search for the Rarest Owl of India

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In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and, in the instance of this epic report, India. We don’t really know – if we put aside already well documented habitat destruction.

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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February

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It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India. Put the blog post directly into the body of the email: we will not open attached documents. We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID. Puembo Birding Garden. Jaguarundi Travel.

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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Anderson, famous for slow-motion beach running scenes in the hit 1990s lifeguard TV show, wrote to R.C.

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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)

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When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of binoculars, likely a camera, perhaps a spotting scope and a tripod too, plus clothing, medicines, toiletries, electronics, money and documents… Did you notice the missing item?

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What’s in a Name: Snipe Hunt

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Ali Hussein or Hussain, a bird conservationist from India about whom I can find very little information, has apparently documented a traditional bird-trapping technique in his home region that resembles the folkloric snipe hunt in many particulars. It has nothing to do with the childish hazing ritual. Or does it?

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Birding without a phone

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It’s similar with birds: good birds never come if you have a way of documenting them. Out of my total of 15 observations ever, this is only the third within Serbia (the rest were half in India, the other half in Greece). Leaving the phone behind, I gave up on any possibility of digiscoping.

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