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Birding crème de la crème: Asia – Corbett to Taman Negara

10,000 Birds

So I lowered my threshold to 500 and that worked well… for Costa Rica and South America, that is (especially Peru). Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard. Indian Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, photo Anuwar Hazarika/Wikimedia Commons. Other than that, there are barely a few hotspots with over 500 species.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

After seeing Rhinoceros Auklets and Xantus’s Murrelets on the first half of Sunday’s San Diego Bird Festival pelagic trip, we reached Mexico’s Islas Cornado (Coronado Islands), four rocky islands off the coast of northern Baja California. david Mar 13th, 2011 at 1:17 am Three non-sighted people stood around an elephant.

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