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Flock to Marion

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Birdlife South Africa has previously done two of these types of trips before, previously called Flock to Sea – Namibia in 2013 and Flock to Nowhere in 2017, in partnership with MSC Cruises. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following.

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I Remember Elephants

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Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. One may say so.

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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I am thinking of a relatively stable/prosperous bird-paradise where one may be able to find a job in ecotourism or wildlife research… or, to begin with, as a resident environmental scientist / nature blogger in some wildlife lodge? South Africa (755 / 842). Indonesia (1615 / 1603). Malaysia (702 / 781). The Afrotropics.

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Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

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Two White Storks awaited us there, choosing to stay for the winter instead of wasting all those calories to fly down to South Africa and back, and above us, seven young White-tailed Eagles were thermaling. The number of gulls had halved by now, but the weather had improved and was sunny and quite warm for this time of the year.

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Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club

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Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. James has led professional wildlife and birding tours for 15 years and his passion for birding and remote cultures has taken him to far corners of the earth from the Amazon and Australia to Africa and Madagascar. The proposal from U.S.

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Frogs and Toads of the World: A Book Review by a Fairy Tale Junkie

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And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. There’s the Goliath frog from South Africa—up to one foot in length and over 6 pounds in weight.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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But first, not thinking of proper research, I made no difference between questions, nor were the mentioned destinations really visited or only dreamed about. 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. Or the lack of some expected answers. Most respondents mentioned more than one destination.