10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You may have read my recent piece on Birding the Okavango Delta in Botswana here on 10,000 Birds. If you did you may have gathered that I have a love affair with that wonderful place. However, I have another ongoing love affair, with India. If you have never thought of India as a birding destination, I’d urge you to give it a good look.

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India Wildlife Tigers Rhinoceros 233

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving.

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India Owls Tigers Endangered Species 260

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AUGUST 26, 2021

The following year, having tested his employer’s indulgence still further, Chapin was back in the Congo, where, from a forest mining camp east of Stanleyville (now Kisangani), he succeeded in obtaining several specimens of what he was to name the ‘Congo Peacock’ (Afropavo congensis, and now also known as the Congo Peafowl).

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Congo Africa Madagascar Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The very best choice, so far, turned out to be a notebook of waterproof paper, acquired in some army shop (another idea I had, but never tested, was using a waterproof marker on a plastic foil duct-taped onto a deck). The phone that claims to be rain resistant, but are you resistant to test that claim? Which I find more comfortable.

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Birds Botswana Mississippi Eagles 243