We have BEEN. TO. THAILAND. We started off somewhere in the middle, drove all the way south, drove to both the eastern and western sides,
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Author: budgetbirders
The Nicobar Pigeon and The Similan Islands
The Nicobar Pigeon isn’t necessarily a hard bird to get in Thailand but it can be an expensive one. For this one bird we spent
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Thailand Phase II – The South
Ross and I have been so busy the last few weeks that I’ve been unable to blog anything at all. The lack of internet is
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How He Got The Girl
On Valentine’s Day I learned that boys will be boys no matter what species they are and sometimes they do very silly things to impress girls
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Thailand Phase I – The Elephant Encounter
We just wrapped up the first leg of the Thailand portion of our trip – one day in Pak Thale and five days in Kaeng
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Japan: By the numbers
The first segment of our Big Year is officially over. We are currently sitting at Narita Airport and will soon be boarding a flight
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Cranes, Eagles, and Kites, oh my!
On January 21st, we arrived in Hokkaido at 9:00 a.m. Our goal for the day was to make the 5 hour drive across the island
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The story of the Fish Owl
This is the story of how Ross and I almost died got to see Blakiston’s Fish-owl, an endangered owl species found in East Asia. Oddly
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Monkeys!
On Tuesday (Jan 20) Ross and I visited Jigokudani monkey park, a monkey-spa paradise, where wild Japanese Macaques live and come to bathe in the
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First taste of Japan
Yesterday (Jan 18) we boarded a ferry and headed south to the Izu Island chain located south of Tokyo, Japan. Our game plan for the
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