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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies.

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The Medicine Bird

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However, ongoing research at Sia Essential Species Repository (see below) reveals this is not always the case, and that there are actually five phases between albino and leucistic. Wildlife centers depend heavily on the advice of veterinarians who work with wildlife, and who often exchange treatments and experiences with each other.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

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Due to the large number of specialty and range-restricted species it is a must-visit destination for any South African birder who wants to surpass the 800-mark of a Southern African life-list. I can speak from experience that this place should only be accessed by a 4 x 4 vehicle. Just be prepared for well…almost anything.

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German Birding Blitz

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Europe… with such low herp diversity the locals split any sub-population of a species that occurs on either the Iberian Peninsula or Italy as a new species just to make them feel better out themselves, naturally is the continent that rose to the top of my trip list. Once on our own, Jess and I decided to try a fun experiment.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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The island contains 80,000 breeding Sooty Terns, in addition to 4,500 breeding Brown Noddies and another 100 breeding pairs of the huge Magnificent Frigatebirds, not to mention pelicans, herons, Black Skimmers , other tern species, and so much more. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. Oh, the lessons of bird banding.

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Transit in Dubai

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Security is taken very seriously in the aviation business and discretion is better than having to explain yourself to tightly wound security personnel. Many of the common species can be seen here, probably in this order; White-eared Bulbul , Red-vented Bulbul , Eurasian Hoopoe , Purple Sunbird , Graceful Prinia , Indian Roller.

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