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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Originally restricted to Africa, it is now also well-established in parts of Europe and South Africa. I was vaguely curious about the family name mousebird. One being that the name is based on the bird’s soft feathers with a texture similar to a mouse’s fur. A pity I cannot draw.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

10,000 Birds

Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. Eagle hunting is a family tradition that goes back at least 12 generations, part of the larger nomadic Kazakh culture. That’s not right.”

Eagles 101