Category: Blog
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Birding Adventure at Long Valley, New Territories
Today was my first free weekday in over a month, and the fact that the weather finally cleared up enough for birding led to me gathering up my gear and hitting the road early to make it to a bucket-list birding spot for me: Long Valley. I set out to find the elusive Japanese Quail…
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Sri Lanka (2017): Yala National Park
Yala National Park is a 400 square kilometer preserve set in the dry lowlands of Sri Lanka. Consisting of tall stone monoliths, endless pristine beaches, verdant scrub jungle and freshwater lagoons, this park is world-famous for its leopards. No other place on Earth has a higher density of these spotted cats (2/square kilometer!) It is…
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Birding Trip to Tai Po Kau Forest, Hong Kong
Until around a thousand years ago, Hong Kong was cloaked in ancient subtropical rainforest where majestic creatures like South China Tigers, Asian Elephants, Silver Pheasants, and Red-Headed Trogons roamed. Throughout the last six centuries, the merciless destruction of these forests for agriculture, firewood and building materials by Chinese settlers led to European explorers considering Hong…
Bennett Gardner Wildlife Watching 