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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February

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It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India. Birding Experiences. We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID. But, as you’ve probably noticed, we’re not out of the pandemic yet. Macaw Lodge. InkaNatura Travel.

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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) In later years it included a class for digiscoping which I entered a few times.

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. India (1180 / 1171). Map by BirdLife International. As is every one after it.

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Spotting scope review: Swarovski 25-60Ă—65 STX

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I bought my first 20 years ago from some Russian on the seashore in Greece, but have not used it much because of rather dark images (I even took it to India with me – and didn’t use it even once). How to describe the experience in one word? And this year I carried it to Greece twice, both by plane and by car.

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