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

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SERVIR Africa Workshop. The greatest wildlife spectacles in the world! The access road passes the Lake Manyara NP and through communal farming lands within Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too. Serengeti National Park.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

10,000 Birds

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. Up to now there have been almost 80 confirmed electrocuted Egyptian Vultures in that area.

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Lake Apopka – Florida’s Inland Rarity Hotspot

10,000 Birds

But all this changed in the early 1940s with the establishment of vegetable muck farms on the lake’s north shore. The healthy marshes that filtered the lake’s incoming water were drained to make room for the muck farms. American Bitterns are common around the lake fringes in winter.

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The Whistle Blowers

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But one man was listening to the calls of the whistle blowers -- calls of widespread wetland destruction, poaching, pesticides and destructive feral wildlife. In December, 1990, a single pair of ducks and some young birds began to feed at the farm of Mr. Willie Ebanks, at Hutland, Northside, in Grand Cayman.