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Birding Botswana’s Borders

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I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. But even without huge herds of elephants large game is defiantly the major draw for most people on the cruise. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.

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Scaup are the Worst Duck

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At least Barnacle Geese are named for an arthropod. Birders there had to invent games to make seeing a scaup interesting: Because of all the places it could have called its winter home, it chose the Rhine separating Huningue and Weil am Rhein, the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany.

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