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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of January 2012?

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Nice, right? Corey will be experiencing birding bliss all weekend long at the mighty, mighty Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Northern White-crowned Shrike in Tanzania by Walter Kitundu a. Take a moment to check out how trippy this tree is. When you’re done, come back and we’ll talk birds.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

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This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. Four years later, happy, well-fed, and carefully instructed that wildlife was no longer on the menu, he was the Village’s walking field guide to birds. Once an Augur Buzzard swooped over our heads and landed in a tree right above us. But that was seven years ago.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. This is of course an anathema for many in the animal rights camp.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. Black Rhinos are best sought in South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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A lot of destinations were mentioned, with Central and South America leading the way, New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia appearing only at the middle of the list, and African countries (South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar) lagging at the end of the list. Day after day went by, with much sound but no sight of the peacocks.

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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

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Tanzania 1135 13. Being a land-locked country with 1400+ species is remarkable in its own right. The most bird-rich northeast of India includes e.g. the Kaziranga NP and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, respectively, together with the world’s largest Amur Falcon roost in Nagaland.

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We Should Kill More Lions

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Assuming you have a passing interest in wildlife, or at the least you know someone that does, and chances are in the last week or so you’ve become aware that some lady from America shot a lion. Take the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. It may even have been mentioned in Google+, although it is unlikely anyone noticed.

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