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Landfill by Tim Dee: Review

10,000 Birds

” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. Publisher Little Toller Books, United Kingdom. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.” Book details. Hardback | 178mm x 128mm | 240 pages.

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Birding the Rainforest Canopy

10,000 Birds

The lure of an staggering number of species at a particular location is a draw for many people. In fact, the number of “heard only” annotations next to a species names is more frequent in bird list resulting from rainforest birding than birding in any other habitat type. Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons.

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Back from the Second Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru

10,000 Birds

The 1,500 km route included a great diversity of habitat types, elevations along the west and east facing slopes of the Andes, jaw dropping landscapes, contrasting microclimates, cultural diversity and a potential list of well over 1,000 species. Other teams had member with lots of experience in the western lowlands.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom. Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species. Research to determine the ability to understand the HCA vs. UCA distinction has shown this to be rare as well. Here’s the idea.

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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

10,000 Birds

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom. As a rule, I like second editions better.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. This may sound mundane, but my Best Bird of the Year is a species we all know quite well in one form or another.

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