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Seabirding off Cape Point

10,000 Birds

When he isn’t snapping photos in the field, training local bird guides, or supporting seabird-related conservation initiatives, he runs Avian Leisure , a birding and wildlife safari company out of Cape Town established in 1998, with his wife, Marie-Louise.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). A hawk-avoidance training program is created.