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Hawking for Nighthawks

10,000 Birds

Especially as we were at the time about to experience a rapidly advancing tropical storm. The vocal seedeaters remain prized possessions for many rural citizens here, some have heavy price tags around their necks; unfortunately confining them to a lifetime of incarceration. Common Waxbills.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

10,000 Birds

Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. They would like to experience it, but have no sufficient knowledge of its birding possibilities to choose one, or a few, instead of a continent as a whole. 8%: Brazil, Panama. 10%: Australia, Papua New Guinea.