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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

10,000 Birds

Herbert travels broadly to attend birding festivals and fairs as an exhibitor and as a guest speaker on the topics of ecotourism development, community-based Skills training focusing on Women in tourism. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

10,000 Birds

ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

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The return of the Old Man

10,000 Birds

The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds.

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Accessibility Matters

10,000 Birds

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. It is an eye-opening experience to view a familiar place from a new perspective.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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Managing Emotional Problems in Rescue Dogs

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Sadly, however, one of the reasons people are hesitant to adopt these dogs is because of the assumption that such dogs are always “damaged goods,&# and can’t be re-trained. Before I ever started with the training of Juliet and Foxy, I arranged for vet appointments. Here is what I learned from working with them.

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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

10,000 Birds

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds.

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