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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The furry kind is represented with 95 species – more than in any other Ugandan park, 10 primates among them, including the Chimpanzee. Kibale Forest National Park The primate capital of East Africa! Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too.

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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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Costa Rica’s Best Birds of Halloween

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Each of the six species in Costa Rica sports beautiful plumage with green and blue hues highlighted with rufous tones, and several also have long, racket-tipped tails. Similar to Corvids and primates in more than one way, toucans are smart, very social frugivores that also feed on any small animals they can manage to catch.

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Secrets of the Swamps

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On Bush Bush, the main attraction is undoubtedly the pair of native primate species: Red Howler and (Trinidad) White-fronted Capuchin, the latter being critically endangered. Makes sense in retrospect, as I have also seen this species on the rocky northeastern tip of the island within the littoral forest there.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Birds have been proven to have the abilities to form abstract concepts, make tools, remember the past and plan for the future…I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceburg for what we may discover about them in our lifetimes. has gained a solid foothold in the scientific community.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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Kibale Forest NP–Primate Lodge. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi. 28 Nov 2019. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. 28 Nov 2019. Green-throated Sunbird – Chalcomitra rubescens. 27 Nov 2019. Chubb’s Cisticola – Cisticola chubbi. UG-Hoima-Kabarole (0.6541,30.2827). 27 Nov 2019. Interlagos autodrome.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. And wow, what a trip we had! Official estimates suggest that logging is proceeding at about four million cubic meters per annum – four times the sustainable rate.

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