In case you missed it, we had just spent the previous days visiting a few small islands off the coast of Sumatra. Over the course
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Indonesia – Time For a Boat Trip! – Bangkaru & Babi
Indonesia is an island nation most famous among international tourists for the beautiful paradise that is the island of Bali. But let me tell you,
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Indonesia – Java – Wait, There’s Birds Around Jakarta?!
After Gunung Gede we were headed towards Jakarta to do a little birding because we were a bit ahead of schedule. If you read the
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Indonesia – Gunung Gede – Three Days Up A Mountain
If I’m being honest, Ross is the brains behind most of our birding adventures. While I am definitely a lister myself, my life list isn’t
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Indonesia – Halimun – Hallelujah, We Made It To Halimun!
It’s a hefty day of travel when you are going to the other side of the world. I mean that. And when I say “day”
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India – The Final Leg
Let me start by saying that while the majority of our time in India was spent in the desert, not all of India can even
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India – The Greater Rann of Kutch – All of the Sandgrouse
We had just been birding in the Little Rann of Kutch and were making our way towards the Greater Rann, whose northern border actually forms
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India – The Little Rann of Kutch
Desert habitat, while beautiful in its own right, looks amazingly barren upon first glance. The truth is, it is quite barren, at least relatively speaking.
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India – Siana – Where Ross hits 6,000
Ross Gallardy will be the first to tell you that 6,000 life birds isn’t a real milestone. Six thousand is just another number on the
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India – Jaisalmer – THE Great Indian Bustard
This whole trip to India started because of one particular bird but along the way we had been birding a few locations (here and here) searching for
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