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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Adult males reach an average length of 2.32 metres (7.6

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Birding the Trinity Hills

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There’s an unofficial series of posts on species of birds that occur in threes in T&T (see: bitterns , trogons , antshrikes , spinetails , manakins , hermits , honeycreepers , and resident warblers ). We stopped periodically to investigate various patches along the road. Broad-winged Hawk. Slowly, we continued.

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Birding Borneo with Non Birders

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My Dad is less of a biologist and more interested in history, but is also laid back and happy enough watching us have fun, but we even managed to find some historical sites to investigate. Between the 22 of December and the 31st I managed to see 171 species of bird, this had climbed to 219 by the time I had left of the 11th of January.

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