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Birding Botswana’s Borders

10,000 Birds

I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. The river cruises up the Chobe River are most famous for the dry season aggregations of African Bush Elephants drawn to the year-round water.

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Baby Bird Books, Little Bird Books

10,000 Birds

But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse. This beautiful book, an a import from Switzerland, is a joy to look at and read. In Are You My Mother?

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