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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. If you have never thought of India as a birding destination, I’d urge you to give it a good look.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

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“Arrow-Marked Babblers move around in gangs of a dozen or so, like troops of monkeys or wild dogs, constantly chattering among themselves. Among the findings: “Canary traders, mostly with primary education level (63.25%) and Muslim (97.5%), were on average 44 years old and an average experience of 27 years.

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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These experiences were the highlight of my trip to Ethiopia and one of the most fascinating and enjoyable encounters I have ever had the privilege to experience in many years of wildlife watching. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley. Photographing Geladas in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains by Dave Semler.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival. Mursi woman. A Mursi woman in full regalia.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is this the type of avian experience we want? We know what those large flocks were like.

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Tiritiri Matangi Island

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On my first visit to the island a few years ago I even found one hunting for sandhoppers and other assorted treats in the washed up seaweed on the beach. Duncan Mar 10th, 2011 at 3:01 am I know from experience that Saddlebacks are tricky little guys to catch. Saddleback ( Philesturnus carunculatus ) on the beach.