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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. At the same time, a Peregrine Falcon flies across the valley. Our guides were researchers from Callisto, patient and always smiling Yannis Tsanakis (above) and Maria Petridou with her infectious laugh and stories of her Sun Bear and Jaguar research experiences.

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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. Their fragile homes, meager belongings and scant livestock attested to this, and yet the people seemed content with their lot in life.

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CBC Shenanigans

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The following year, 2014, I elected to join a different group birding the lowland seasonal forest at the opposite end of the CBC radius from where I had that wonderful experience the year before. This hulking Peregrine Falcon was very accommodating to say the least. Trinidad Lancehead , or Fer-de-lance.

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