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Birding Kabul, Afghanistan

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I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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The more specific aspects do not add much detail: “The American Birding Association represents the North American birding community and supports birders through publications, conferences, workshops, tours, partnerships, and networks. Without a clear vision for the future, it seems difficult to search for, let alone hire, the right person.

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Photograph Wildlife Worldwide with Wildlife Explorers!

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Its founder, Chris Vlachos, has extensive experience and background in wildlife photography, starting his career more than 20 years ago. He holds the first place in the Greek Birdwatching Club 300, he organizes seminars and workshops both in the field and in venues and has been professionally engaging with field guiding since 1998.

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Review Classic: The Warbler Guide

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With nine years of experience using it and birding with beginning birders, I would like to update that opinion. And, I’m happy to say that the guide is as visually exciting and fun to use as it sounded in the workshop. And, I hope that we never have to experience a world without warblers. This is a guide for all birders.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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The section on shooting birds in snow, for example, covers how to expose for snow (to the right), the consequences of different shutter speeds (fast shutter speed to show individual snowflakes or slow shutter speed to show streaks?), Each illustration (and, there are many) is captioned with equipment used and camera settings.

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On the Psychological Continuum

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And when I spoke about a continuum over a year ago as a result of a workshop with Rae Sikora, who demonstrated that there was a continuum, there was some discontent. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour.

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Hidden Birds and the Birders Who Find Them

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While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. Not easy, right? Why was it found by a relative novice the first time around and by a top birder the second?

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