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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guideā€™s index, and the last. My first sightings were on a rubbish tip not far from the town of Brasov in Transylvania.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. We arose each morning at 4:30am to find out that we were late to the game.