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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon. Eggbert side notes that the most famous bird in New York City is not a falcon, it is a Red-tailed Hawk named Pale Male.

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Weavers

10,000 Birds

Image taken by Adam Riley in Tanzania. Image taken by Adam Riley in Tanzania. Bubalornis – the black Buffalo Weavers A male Red-billed Buffalo Weaver photographed in Tanzania by Adam Riley The two species of black buffalo weavers are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa. Image by Adam Riley in Namibia.

Tanzania 215
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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

10,000 Birds

Tanzania 1135 13. The most bird-rich northeast of India includes e.g. the Kaziranga NP and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, respectively, together with the world’s largest Amur Falcon roost in Nagaland. Indonesia 1761 5. Ecuador 1690 6. Bolivia 1433 7. Venezuela 1417 8.

Uganda 242