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Rupununi River Cruise

10,000 Birds

A pair of Jabiru were locked in a chase, one tucked in its eight foot wingspan and made a dive not too dissimilar from that of a falcon. Here, we were treated to the sight of a family of Giant River Otters that were stationed on the opposite bank. Cameras were still tucked away, but the experience left us all without words.

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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

You are certain to see Greater One-horned Rhinoceros , Water Buffalo and Hog Deer , and with a bit of luck Smooth-coated Otters. Here we look for sandgrouse, bush-quails, francolins, wheatears, shrikes, Laggar Falcons , eagles, buzzards, and the endangered Stolikza’s Bush Chat. Or you may like to join us on a Rajashtan Tour?

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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

10,000 Birds

the Forest Falcons – UK. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team. Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. The E-Birders – Cornell, USA. The Ararajubas – Brazil.

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Prespa Lakes National Park, Greece: the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world

10,000 Birds

The best bird was one lovely Common Chiffchaff that was very hard to locate in the thick crown of an old juniper tree, followed by one mysterious small falcon. Up the dirt track next to a hilltop church is not particularly productive at this time of year. It disappeared behind a tree in a split second, showing me only its back view.

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Sani Pass – a Drakensberg birding gem

10,000 Birds

Here, thousands of Amur Falcons hunt for insects during the southern summer, Wattled Cranes and Denham’s Bustards may be seen, impressive Long-tailed Widowbirds display over the grasslands and the waterbodies are a haven to many hundreds of waterbirds, including Maccoa and White-backed Ducks.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

Instead of a Pterodactyl, we had one rare Orange-breasted Falcon by the mountain top, which greeted us in the scope-view. This is how 100 years ago Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described a particular sighting over the top of one of these tepui mountains in his 1912 novel The Lost World.

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Seabirding off Cape Point

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Such activity hardly goes unnoticed by piratical and falcon-like Parasitic Jaegers and the larger, more thickset and not as common Pomarine Jaegers , readily on the lookout for a kleptoparasitic feeding opportunity along the outermost reefs.

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