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  1. jurek

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I saw bat caves in Borneo but Mexico was more entertaining. The toucans were more colorful and the Brown Jays were more interesting. They are weak flyers compared to the bats, but seem to know that the bat echolocation does not work backwards and flew into the stream of bats from behind.
  2. jurek

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I had a Collared Forest-Falcon pointed to me by a non-birder. There seems to be a stakeout for the Collared Forest-Falcon in Mexico now. One was sitting at the entrance to the bat cave Cueva de los Murcilegos near Calakmul, Campeche for an hour, and then trashing after bats few meters above...
  3. jurek

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    GHOs, and also Milky Eagle Owls in Africa have a habit of perching prominently at telephone poles, treetops etc. before dusk, often in pairs, surveying their territory. I never seen EOs doing this. I remember in Venezuela we heard a quiet hollow sound at the roadside. We thought it was...
  4. jurek

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I saw more Great Horned Owls in a few short trips to North America than Eagle Owls during lifetime in Europe. I first saw a Black Swan as a category C bird from a bus in England. I seen it so poorly that I did not count it. Then I saw one in the Netherlands, where it is also a category C, and I...
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