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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

10,000 Birds

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came – the White Rhinoceros.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

There was no pretending this was a whale-watching trip, a ruse that is growing stale anyway. As we made our way around the island in a clockwise direction we continually saw large numbers of Rhinoceros Auklets , which are so clumsy on land that they must wait for the cover of darkness to get back to their burrows to feed their young.