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Birding Senegal: Costco ads and Scissor-tailed Kites

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So, when searching records, we noticed a lack of eBird reports in Senegal and The Gambia. According to Google, Senegal is about the same size as South Dakota. lists in South Dakota and Senegal has had 757 eBirders submit 12.1K According to Google, Senegal is about the same size as South Dakota.

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Senegal Thick-knee

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Screened by a stand of large eucalyptus trees, I was at last able to concentrate on my quarry and complete my mission to bring you the Senegal Thick-knee (How many have you seen so far?). Running and rolling, I made my way across the track and into the dusty, trash strewn desert at the centre.

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How to Bird Murchison Falls

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TRIP LIST ( multiple lists ): White-faced Whistling-Duck, Egyptian Goose, Spur-winged Goose, Helmeted Guineafowl, Heuglin’s Francolin, Mourning Collared-Dove, Vinaceous Dove, Laughing Dove, Black-billed Wood-Dove, Denham’s Bustard, Eastern Plantain-eater, White-browed Coucal, Senegal Coucal, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Dideric Cuckoo, Alpine (..)

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Baby Spotted Dikkop

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We’ve shared plenty of pictorals of adult thick-knees, also known as stone-curlews or Dikkops, from Senegal Thick-knee ( here ) to Beach Stone-curlew ( here ) to Bush Thick-knee ( here and here ). And despite our evident New World bias here at 10,000 Birds, we have a fondness for Old World shorebirds like thick-knees.

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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

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An exhausted, panting, Griffon Vulture sits on a sea wall at Gibraltar, with a backdrop of spring-colorful wildflowers at Gibraltar These birds have crossed the Sahara Desert to winter in the Sahel Region, some right down to Senegal in West Africa, and are now on their way back.

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Walt Whitman’s “To the Man-of-War-Bird”

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what joys were thine! The Man-of-War-Bird has so mastered flight that the sky is its “slave&# and Whitman has been reduced to a “speck&# far, far, beneath the bird.

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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In his Preface, McMullan warns the reader that the book is not written in chronological order and he’s not kidding: the narrative goes from Thailand to Seattle, from Senegal to the Everglades, without segue or even much of a breath. He probably should do.

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