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Birding the Bamiyan area, Afghanistan

10,000 Birds

Witness this shot of a Hooded Crow , a species that does not seem to mind foraging very close to people almost exactly in the city center of Bamiyan (though the term city center may be a bit of an exaggeration for this place). We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women.

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Calling All Birders: Come To Hog Island!

10,000 Birds

I was returning from Rockport, Maine, having retrieved my daughter Skye and her friend Bau-Hien from a photography workshop. Skye wore a long-suffering expression, while Bau-Hien – whose parents had settled in Texas after leaving Vietnam – regarded me with a mixture of fascination and alarm. Soon the girls emerged.

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The Whistle Blowers

10,000 Birds

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. West Indian Whistling Ducks are the largest of the eight different whistling duck species. Between 1985 and 1991, the ducks suffered a further drastic decline with fewer than 100 birds estimated from Grand Cayman.