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Birds of a Feather – A Fun, Family-Friendly Card Game

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I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting much from a card game about birding. But the idea still intrigued me and the thought of a card game that might further indoctrinate the five-year-old tyrant of our house, Desi, into birding seemed worth exploring. ” Tuesday night after dinner Desi, Daisy, and I sat down to play the game.

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Forest Bathing

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During a two-year long moratorium on hunting in T&T, I had some of the most incredible birding experiences. The higher elevation also attracts more rainfall, broad-leafed trees shed their dying leaves onto the floor to make a playground for species like White-necked Thrush, Grey-throated Leaftosser and Black-faced Antthrush.

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The Marvelous Self-Awareness of Elephants: Insights into their Intelligent Minds

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One of their most unique qualities is their self-awareness, which is a sign of higher cognitive abilities that are usually reserved for humans and a few other species. Most animals, including dogs and cats, cannot recognize themselves in a mirror, but a few species can, including chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants.

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Real Angry Birds

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While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on the identification of what the Angry Birds birds actually are , little attention has been paid to those that came before. For those who are not in the know, may I present you with some images of actual Angry Birds?

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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

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They lurk ever-present in our sub-concious as sacred items on an unobtainable, yet highly desirable, list. The bird eluded me for nearly 20 years until I stumbled across one at Phinda Private Game Reserve , where I worked in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Our Pel’s experience deep within the heart of the Okavango was unforgettable.

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Plugging Kids Into Birding

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By age 2 she could identify over 10 species of birds in our Johannesburg, South Africa, yard by call alone. GAMES AND APPS. What kid does not love games? Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. And perhaps 20 others by sight. Can we beat our record?&#

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Seabirding off Cape Point

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This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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