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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

10,000 Birds

First, rangers would show some animal dung and teach their guests how to identify it (big deal – it is going nowhere, nor hiding away) and then show, let’s say, a herd of antelopes to their left – only to use the time when no one is watching to print some lion spurs in the dust on the right hand side, so they would be nicely fresh for photographing.

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The 300 survivors

10,000 Birds

Hunting and disturbance, deterioration, fragmentation and destruction of habitat were the forces behind the decline of this, once widespread species, making it Critically Endangered on the IUCN Global Red List. And the animals themselves? Males reach 1.2 meters in height and up to 18 kilograms (females are smaller).

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Should We Take the “Christmas” out of the Christmas Bird Count?

10,000 Birds

The oft-told tale of its start in 1900 as an alternative to the “side-hunt” which was itself a long tradition in many families warms many a birder’s heart. No real harm would come, right? You would at least think twice about it, right? Or the Great Bird Count. Is everyone involved going to be Muslim?