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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. A pair of screeching Blacksmith Lapwings was flying around as six Burchell’s Zebras were quenching their thirst, suspiciously observing surroundings every now and then. What are your best wildlife moments?

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Week 16: South Africa and Kruger National Park

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The house is a four bedroom, four bath two story, with a deck running around three sides of the upper story, great for wildlife viewing. So far we have seen Impala, Duiker, Greater Kudu, Mongoose, Zebra and warthogs around the neighborhood, and yard. This will act as our base for the next 20 days.

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Week 17: Kruger NP, Crocodile Bridge to Lower Sabie

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By the time you see this in the United States, I will have had a full week to explore this amazing area, and the wildlife that calls this home. We are on the go until usually around 1:30 give or take a herd of zebras blocking the road. The schedule is a bit daunting, as we are up before 5 AM to get to the gate for the 6AM opening.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick. Illustrated with drawings by the author’s wife, wildlife artist Catherine Putman, “Understanding Animal Behaviour” has 178 pages. Zebra finch, Taeniopygia (Poephila) guttata. Shoveler, Northern, Anas clypeata.

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Borrow pit birding near Broome

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This actually benefits our local wildlife, because the rainwater then gets trapped in the borrow pit and in some instances it will sustain the wildlife right through our dry months when there is no rainfall at all. The borrow pit has one deep section of water and it is popular with Australasian Grebes.

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Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline

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These Blasts From The Past In the Spirit of Thanksgiving Amazing Election Results IATB #64 Deadline Zebra Finches on Guitar Quincy, Massachusetts Man Deserves Kudos About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S.

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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. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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