Here's what that internet thing has told me about Afghanistan ... Afghanistan is a landlocked country, two-thirds of which are difficult to access mountain regions. The highest mountains reach almost 7500 m. Nevertheless, Afghanistan has a large diversity of habitats and also a large number of endemic plants. However, the establishment of a systematic nature conservation has been hindered by the unstable political situation; so far there is only one national park (Band-e-Amir lakes near Bamiyan). The bird life is astonishingly varied in view of the difficult climatic conditions. This multilingual (en, de, fr, es, ja, cn) bird guide ( see below) introduces the complete bird life of Afghanistan in color. As a bonus, links to HD videos of more than 90 bird species are included. ( That's the official line, I take it .... ) ( But right now ...) We've all seen the total disaster area that is Afghanistan. We've seen ruined towns, thugs in trucks toting machine guns.. that sort of thing. But the one sort of thing I haven't seen anything of is .... BIRDS. Not one has put in an appearance. Not while I've been watching anyway. So .. I wondered ... maybe they've shot and eaten them all. Or maybe, there aren't any. It doesn't look very hospitable towards birds. Ferocious heat, dreadful drought, relentless sun, sparse vegetation ... So ...I thought ..... why would they bother having such a thing as .. " The Birds of Afghanistan" But they have !!! Judging by the author, the well-known Wolfgang J. Daunicht, we would hope that the usual German efficiency would result in a terrific book. Who knows ? So ...dear readers all.... we will all have our eyes glued to the news to see what, if anything, we can spot. And if you do spot some, kindly let me know so that I can start my Afghan-list. I think its called Crowd-Sourcing. Here's a beautiful video ..... I recognised a lot of the little chunks of it .... RESULT ! ... in the paper yesterday there was a huge flock of wonderful Feral Pigeons being perused by a huge flock of gun-toting Talibanners ... I assume that's the collective name for them.
I'm relying on you lot to spot some more ,er, interesting species. At least, all seems to be going really well in the world. The hotter the country, the madder they are. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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