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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

Travel onto the world famous Kaziranga National Park and you will have very good chances of more endangered species such as Pallas’s Fish Eagle , vultures, Swamp Francolin , and both species of Adjutant Storks. Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets.

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Birding Santa Cruz Island

10,000 Birds

Depending on the time of year, other alcids to expect include Pigeon Guillemots, Common Murres , Rhinoceros Auklets and Cassin’s Auklets. At the very northern end of their breeding range in the Channel Islands, they are strictly a Californian bird as far as the U.S. is concerned.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

George Rippon (1861-1927), a member of the British Army in India and Burma. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter.

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

Similarly, the property protects an impressive large mammal fauna; it contains globally significant populations of African elephant (Loxodontha africana) (106,300), black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) (2,135) and wild hunting dog (Lycaon pictus). You protect an entire ecosystem that holds 350 bird species. You do a lot of good.

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