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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals. In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically.

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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

10,000 Birds

That’s because this fascinating part-Caribbean, part-south American country holds well over 800 species of avifauna making it without doubt one of my top three countries in all of the continent to visit. Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see.

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. With more than 312 so far recorded bird species, Lake Kerkini National Park offers great birding year-round. Other important breeding species include Black and White Stork , Lesser Spotted , White-tailed , and Booted Eagle.

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Birding Beljarica in August

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August is possibly the best month there, because you gradually observe the rise and fall of numbers of various migrating species, which use it as a stopover site to fatten up ahead of the long hauls further south. Before I start, my readers are already asking themselves why are they familiar with the name of this locality? Photo: VICE.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

10,000 Birds

A Wood Stork lands in a tree, while one Neotropical River Otter swims across and climbs a floating log. Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor.

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Pasir Ris Park-Singapore

10,000 Birds

Walking beside the Pasir Ris Park Connector we watched otters playing in the water. There is a massive nest at the top of a tower beside the Sports Centre and a family of Monk Parakeets have taken up residence. We encountered several bird species there including a Yellow-rumped Flycatcher and a nesting Red-breasted Parakeet.

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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

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I have observed this species many times (my eBird says 28 times this year alone) and never had one landing near me. The last Eurasian Otters were spotted here about the time the construction works started (I have observed them here half a dozen times, and other birders have seen them at least that many times).

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