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Collaborative List – November 2019

10,000 Birds

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” Kibale Forest NP–Primate Lodge. Squirrel Cuckoo – Piaya cayana. Something needed to be done. Somebody had to take one for the team. Mike fixed me with his cold, steely, gray-eyed stare. 28 Nov 2019.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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