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The Taiaroa Headland in New Zealand.

Taiaroa Headland: The best place in the world to see albatrosses

The Royal Albatross colony at the Taiaroa Headland on New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula offers an extraordinary chance to see nesting albatrosses. The Royal Albatross colony on Taiaroa Headland It’s a long time since the old fort on the Taiaroa Headland was used for spotting enemy…
Tags: birds, Dunedin, New Zealand, South Island, wildlife
A takahe.

Seeing takahe and Haast tokoeka at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary

The Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin is home to some of New Zealand’s rarest endangered birds. Here’s how to visit. Returning to pre-human New Zealand As tasks go, returning a 307 hectare valley to how it would have looked before humans would have arrived in New…
Tags: birds, Dunedin, New Zealand, South Island, wildlife
Patients inside the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital.

Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital: Getting there, tours & ticket prices

The delightfully strange Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital is an underrated UAE attraction. The two hour tours are well worth taking. Inside the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital The doctor picks up his patient, puts a conical chamber over its head and releases the gas until it…
Tags: Abu Dhabi, birds, UAE, wildlife

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