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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

10,000 Birds

Kaziranga has one of the densest populations of Bengal Tiger in India. Here we look for sandgrouse, bush-quails, francolins, wheatears, shrikes, Laggar Falcons , eagles, buzzards, and the endangered Stolikza’s Bush Chat. We would also visit Ranthambore National Park where we hope to see more wonderful wildlife, and with luck, tiger.

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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 2

10,000 Birds

Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus also lie in wait and defend their own young, just as the gulls do. We save pandas and tigers, as we should, but we don’t give as much thought to the creepy crawlies and other less-attractive creatures that also need our help. But why should we style the gull as enemy and the vulture as friend?

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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

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Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum; Tambor, 3-Jan. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans; Raptor Ridge, 5-Jan. Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus; Raptor Ridge, 5-Jan. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis; Curu, 4-Jan. Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. We could do it! Then the 80s happened. Good times, I tell you what.

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Starting Another Year of Birding in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum; Sarapiqui, 8-Jan. Rufescent Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma lineatum; Tirimbina, 2-Jan. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis; Sarapiqui, 1-Jan. Barred Forest-Falcon – Micrastur ruficollis; Arenal, 13-Jan. Great Egret – Ardea alba; Sarapiqui, 8-Jan.

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Caribbean Lowland Birding at Ara Ambigua Lodge, Costa Rica

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In Costa Rica, even the super shy Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon is seen more often than the island pigeon with the snow-white cap. The Bat Falcon that joined us for breakfast. . Despite part of it being chomped by cattle, we still managed a juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron , an excellent find for Costa Rica!

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Collaborative list – February 2021

10,000 Birds

192 Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum. 289 Barred Forest-Falcon – Micrastur ruficollis. 292 Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. 296 Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. 297 Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus. 192 Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum.