There’s a mountain that rises sharply out of the ground in far Western Tanzania. To the east lies hundreds of kilometers of miombo forest and
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Tag: Endemics
“Penetrating the Impenetrable” — Bwindi, Uganda
“We’re going to get some endemics today!”“Well actually they aren’t endemic…”“Well you can’t get into the DRC sooooo…”“Albertine Rift endemics!!”This was the conversation we had
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Can We Find The Forest?! A search for Montane Akalat
Our big Africa trip that we had started in 2020 took a year long pause. I’m sure by now you know why. Almost exactly to
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Philippines 2017: Birding Panay
“Be careful if you decide to shower, there’s a Pit-Viper in there.”—a favorite quote from our time on Panay. I’ll get to the part with
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Birding Colombia: Mid-Magdalena Valley, Tolima, and Fuerte’s Parrots!
Continuing on my Colombian bird-finding quest, I managed to cover A LOT of ground in 4 days and was lucky enough to find some very good
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Oxypogon in the Sky: A Search for One of the World’s Rarest Hummingbirds
Bird extinction is on the rise. As habitat destruction, introduced predators, and avian disease wreak havoc on birds around the world, conservationists have continued to
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