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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The bird-richest region of Africa is its equatorial East: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (unlike the rest, the last one, Burundi, is politically unstable and not recommendable). Kenya has 13 400+ hotspots, one of them 500+. It is one of the only two freshwater lakes in Kenya. 3 Lake Manyara NP 573 sp. Lake Nakuru.

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A Walk in the Desert

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A single morning birding the thorny desert of Baringo in Kenya’s Rift Valley yielded several species at a rate I at times struggled to keep up with. The first stop was along a narrow dirt track adjacent to some farming land. A Dark Chanting Goshawk perched some distance away.

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72 dangerous animals africa

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aethiopicus , but today that scientific name is restricted to the desert warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia. They are farmed worldwide, with significant industries in the Philippines and in Namibia. they also have fangs that inject a tiny bit of venom and cause a lot of pain. It's not easy to catch them.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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Placing one hand over his pate, as he was wont to do, and pointing at the others as he spoke with the finger of his other hand, Isaac stated in his semi-elvian voice, colored with the British Colonial Accent he grew into as the son of a South African Brit exiled to Kenya, the following: “Eric, shut up. Your argument is invalid.

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