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Afforestation

10,000 Birds

The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) This oak was my first success with collected acorns. I started afforesting our church lot in 2016, just after we were able to fence it.

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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

An abstract of a scientific paper reads as follows (unabridged): “External examination of free range abandoned dead Greater Coucal in a veterinary dispensary, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India revealed presence of a large sized louse in the feathers and was identified as Laemobothrion maximum on the basis of morphology and size of the louse.”

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