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Peru Bird Watching
January 25th, 2012 
admin The late Theodore Parker III, famous American field ornithologist once said “Peru offers ‘bird-enthusiasts’ more than any other country in the world… Being here is like being a child visiting a huge store filled with new and fascinating toys”. He was right. Peru possesses an extraordinary ornithological diversity. New species are continually being discovered every [...]
Rare woodpecker expected to draw crowds to Brevard’s birding festival
January 25th, 2012 admin Diehards will fork out as much as $75 to hop on buses at 5 a.m. this week to peep at tree holes in hopes of a glimpse at one of North America’s rarest woodpeckers. The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker can’t match the mystique of the ivory billed woodpecker, believed extinct since the 1940s. But the elusive [...]
Birdwaching
January 25th, 2012 admin The term birdwatching was first used in 1901; bird was introduced as a verb in 1918. The term birding was also used for the practice of fowling or hunting with firearms as in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602): “She laments sir… her husband goes this morning a-birding.” The terms birding and birdwatching are [...]
