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1Urquhart
Bearbeitet: Jun. 4, 2016, 5:58 pm

I have loved birds all my life.

You can't live without birds.

Recently I have been following this website:

http://www.eagles.org/dceaglecam/

We saw these bald eagles hatch and they are now getting ready to fledge. I say in two days they will fly and my wife says in 10 more days. Very interesting viewing. Seriously.

Bald eagles 24 / 7, much better than ISIS or politics or Beyonce or Madonna or ....

2John5918
Jun. 5, 2016, 4:29 am

I got interested in birds a few years ago when it dawned on me that I am surrounded by some of the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world, so I bought a decent pair of binoculars and a field guide and started being more observant.

I'm a member of the LT bird group, and I post observations to eBird. There are not many people systematically observing and recording birds in South Sudan, so I make my own small contribution to that scientific endeavour.

My favourite birds are probably the African Fish Eagle (maybe the local counterpart of your Bald Eagle?), the Crowned Crane (a truly magnificent bird, the national symbol of Uganda) and the African Shoebill (an ugly bugger but impressive and unique). I see Fish Eagles fairly regularly when I'm working at the peace village. We saw a Crowned Crane a week ago when we were in a restaurant garden in Nairobi and it just landed and started strutting around. I haven't seen a Shoebill for nearly ten years as they are rare and I haven't been to the isolated part of South Sudan where they can be found since 2007.

3Urquhart
Jun. 5, 2016, 5:34 am

Crowned Crane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_crowned_crane

Totally new bird for me. You must have a fantastic Life List of birds going.

In NY we don't get the exotics like you do.