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PETA Exposes Horrible Practice of Reptile Skinning

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The skins are being used for handbags and other products. Tags: reptiles indonesia lizards crocodile endangered species. This link has a horrible photo and a worse video. Just warning you. It takes place in Indonesia.

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Visit the Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa

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Over 400 species of birds have been spotted at the Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa and its forests are also a hotspot for several interesting species of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. This also makes the Arenal Observatory Lodge an ideal location for wildlife observation in Costa Rica.

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Photograph Wildlife Worldwide with Wildlife Explorers!

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Their subjects involve mainly birds, mammals, and butterflies, but also reptiles, amphibians, orchids, and underwater creatures. As part of this sponsorship, Canon often provides new products for those photographers who follow its trips and even use its hides.

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Crested Serpent Eagle

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There are, however, plenty of trails and roads that can prove very productive to visiting birders and I came away with 4 life ticks on a recent visit. However, the crest is not always obvious and its diet is likely to contain birds and small mammals as well as reptiles.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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Of course, there was conventional classroom time spent on topics such as mechanics of flight, metabolism, digestion, nest building, egg production, and so forth. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m. with binoculars, field notebooks, smartphones, and field guides” looking for birds. Think about it for a minute.

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Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Ecuador: Two WILDGuides Reviewed

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The PUP WildGuides are a quality act with high production values, knowledgeable authors, beautiful photographs, introductions in the front that describe habitat and indexes in the back. Wildlife of Ecuador: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians is the all-in-one nature guide for the generalist nature traveler.

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Hide at Mankwe Dam

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It is built to reach out into the water when the dam is full and is reached along a raised walkway, screened from the mammals, reptiles and birds that may be roosting, resting, feeding, drinking or waiting in ambush close by.