Category: Birdwatching
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New California National Park ‘Dos Rios’ to Open June 12
The 1,600-acre property, eight miles west of Modesto for decades housed dairy farms and almond orchards. It has now been restored to a broad natural floodplain, where visitors will be able to hike, watch birds and other wildlife, and have a picnic along the riverbanks.
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Amboseli or Hell’s Gate National Park – Kenya
Hell’s Gate National Park is named after a narrow break in the cliffs. Once believed to be a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It received the name “Hell’s Gate” by explorers Fisher and Thomson in 1883 for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries, the outlet of…
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