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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert travels broadly to attend birding festivals and fairs as an exhibitor and as a guest speaker on the topics of ecotourism development, community-based Skills training focusing on Women in tourism. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

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The return of the Old Man

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The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds.

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Accessibility Matters

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I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. It is an eye-opening experience to view a familiar place from a new perspective.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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Birding in the UK after twenty two years

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From Manchester we took a train east to the closest train station to my parents’ home and over those three hours we watched eagerly from the train window for any British birds! Our first birding experiences with UK ducks after so long was frustrating when they all seemed to be tail up! Little Egrets and ducks.

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