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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

On our last visit to the grasslands of Manas we saw not one but two endangered Bengal Floricans in fifteen minutes, with a Pied Falconet thrown in for good measure! Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets. We will travel on to the great Thar Desert, a place of immense beauty and peace.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain. Half Moon Bay, CA. That would have been awful.

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10 Countries, 10 Top Birds in 2016

10,000 Birds

The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a critically endangered species that I came agonisingly close to seeing but didn’t. But it’s a species I’ve tried for years to see in Britain and failed to, so of course I saw one finally at the extreme edge of it’s range in Ethiopia. United Arab Emirates: No Bird Award.