10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

The chicks need six months to develop so the adults lay their eggs in January. A Griffon Vulture rests on a rooftop in the city of Gibraltar, having just crossed the sea from Africa If you check these Griffons , and I have looked at and photographed thousands, not one is an adult. Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season.

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Africa Morocco Senegal Europe 245

Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

forest buffalo goes into first ​ hyena: The spotted hyena is a highly successful animal, being the most common large carnivore in Africa. Its success is due in part to its adaptability and opportionism it is primarily a hunter but may also scavenge, with the capacity to eat and digest skin, bone and other animal waste.

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Africa Buffalo Ostriches Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. And I think he was speaking only of our American Kitties not the Wildcat of Africa. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

The quills of the “Saqu Ettair” Secretarybirds feed on small lizards, insects, rodents, birds eggs and, of course, snakes. In reality this is not true and they can easily succumb to the venom of many of Africa’s poisonous serpents. Another erroneous myth is that Secretarybirds are immune to the venom of snakes.

Botswana 233

Botswana Eagles Porcupines Hunting 233

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Considering the bird survived a season in an area saturated with hunters and birds of prey, this facemelting rarity deserves our respect. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. On occasion, they even incubate their eggs (they are non-parasitic cuckoos) in a communal nest.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155