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Birding Villahermosa’s Urban Parks

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The reptiles in Parque Tomás Garrido were of the crocodilian variety. I’m happy to say that the ones right on the other side of a low wall were not so large. Still, this sort of wildlife experience is available in pretty much any Mexican city. I liked their attitude. Some were quite large.

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Photograph Wildlife Worldwide with Wildlife Explorers!

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Its founder, Chris Vlachos, has extensive experience and background in wildlife photography, starting his career more than 20 years ago. Their subjects involve mainly birds, mammals, and butterflies, but also reptiles, amphibians, orchids, and underwater creatures.

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Mike And Corey Are Going To Uganda!

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You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there. Uganda boasts a checklist of well over one thousand species of birds and host of mammals, reptiles, and interesting insects. ” That helped, right?).

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

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And ours shouldn’t isolate birding blogs from our natural (pardon the pun) allies exploring topics like invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, flora, fungus, and ecosystems of every kind, right? That’s right…. We deserve our own toplist, don’t we?

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The Thing About Colombia

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Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. It’s an incredible experience to see these cotton balls on stilts as they hop out from the dense mountain forest underbrush and dance around in front of you. The list goes on and on and on.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.”

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

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We see a closer shot of the river itself, hawks flying across the span, and then we see that brown line again, close up, a wall of brown panels filling the right side of the screen, continuing into the distance, no end in sight, while a white pick-up truck drives parallel to it at the far left of the screen.

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