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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of February 2021)

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Valentine’s Day on a Sunday delivers the perfect weekend for everyone who identifies as both a bird lover and a lovebird. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Hope you made the most of it! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Namibia’s 15 key birds

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Namibia is politically stable and a safe country to visit offering spectacular scenery, untouched wildernesses, vast game reserves, superb wildlife and fascinating cultural experiences. This species is also known as Peach-faced Lovebird. A male Rosy-faced Lovebird poses on a branch in the Erongo Mountains.

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Arizona in Summer: It Ain’t All Hummers

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Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. One thing that had changed since my 2003 trip was that Rosy-faced Lovebird was on the ABA Checklist (and that I knew what that was). So, I flew into Phoenix, Lovebird Central, and three hours after I got off the plane had a lovebird in my binoculars, at Encanto Park.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

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For 9 months of the year, this great, bellowing herd can be found in the Serengeti and watching the long lines of grunting wildebeest moving across the plains is truly a remarkable experience. Day upon day can be spent in this vast and productive wilderness of epic proportions without ever feeling that the limits have been reached!

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Introducing the African Birding Beat

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I look forward to sharing in more detail Africa’s secrets, her top destinations, and birds and wildlife with you, watch this space for the next installment…… Fischer’s Lovebirds in the Serengeti, Tanzania All images © Adam Riley Adam Riley has grown up with a lifelong interest in wildlife, which evolved into a particular fascination with birds.