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We’re just about at that point in the winter season where I start daydreaming about glorious, sun-drenched days of summers past. The source of some of my favorite tropical, or more accurately, Neotropical memories is the trip Sara and I took to Belize in July 2003. Though we embarked on a week’s worth of [...]
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Last year, we introduced you to Timeless Holiday Gifts for Birders. For this holiday season, we’re ushering in a new tradition: Review Week. Starting tomorrow, we will be posting one new review of a wild bird or birding book or product each day for at least the next seven days. Add this to the long list of reviews we’ve already written and I’d say you’re spoiled for choices for the birder in your life!
Good news, via Mark Anderson of Birdlife SA, that the Lesser Flamingoes are breeding again on Kamfers Dam’s artificial flamingo island. There are 8517 nests on the island, the first chicks were observed more than a week ago, and there are hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of adults incubating eggs. Kamfers Dam is the first breeding locality (in recorded history) for the species in South Africa, the fourth in Africa, and just the sixth in the world! Surely now the spectre of development MUST be removed from the site once and for all.
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