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50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya review

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Catherine Ngarachu’s “50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya” (published by Penguin Random House South Africa) is the first detailed guide to the country’s best birding sites. The only thing left for me is to test this guide within Kenya. The post 50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: The Good, the Bad, and the Huh?

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First, let’s start with the good: Scientific testing of drones near birding hotspot Cape May, NJ has been postponed to avoid messing with Red Knots and Piping Plovers (like the cutie above that Corey photographed there a few years back). (On Penguins are also being touted as a way to gauge the health of oceans.).

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me. But this is more than a coffee table book.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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I wanted Penguins. The African Penguins (formerly known as Jackass Penguins) were pretty much a “gotcha”, but I was still tremendously excited to see them on two field trips–the Boulders colony by False Bay and at the Stony Point colony at Betty’s Bay in the Western Cape. And Sunbirds.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). When was the last time you chose a book by its covers? In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl.

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A Question of Migration

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Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). .; Houghton Mifflin, U.S.), SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. .” Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.

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