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It feels like spring….

10,000 Birds

It’s actually found in a wadi in the United Arab Emirates, in the mountains between Dubai and the Gulf of Oman. Striolated Bunting ( Emberiza srtriolata ) This member of the bunting family (that’s bunting, not sparrow. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae. Long may it last.

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10 Countries, 10 Top Birds in 2016

10,000 Birds

I saw Painted Wolves again, my favourite species ever. In particular they evoke the New Hampshire lake my extended family descends upon each summer and has done so from before I was born. The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a critically endangered species that I came agonisingly close to seeing but didn’t. I went to Ethiopia.