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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

Travel onto the world famous Kaziranga National Park and you will have very good chances of more endangered species such as Pallas’s Fish Eagle , vultures, Swamp Francolin , and both species of Adjutant Storks. Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

George Rippon (1861-1927), a member of the British Army in India and Burma. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter.

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

The answer should be obvious to anyone familiar with wildfowl hunting in the US and the film Jerry McGuire – money. If you want to have the “thrill” of shooting a wild lion (not a canned hunt), well, you’re going to need a lot of land to sustain those lions. Managing areas for hunting does exactly that.

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