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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It also covers Andaman, Nicobar and Laccadive islands.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

10,000 Birds

Most famous for the great wildebeest migration, a phenomenon of 2 million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and eland seasonally moving across the plains and woodlands following an ancient course charted by seasonal rainfall. This 12,000 square mile ecosystem stretches across north-western Tanzania into the Maasai Mara in Kenya.

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