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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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Early Morning Bird Walk – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder. There are only a few birds for whom their names have changed little since the dawn of the written alphabet itself, but ibis, named by the Greeks a few thousand years before, is one of them. Glossy Ibis , Plegadis falcinellus. Sacred Ibis , Threskiornis aethiopicus.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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eBird gives the Indigo Flycatcher a very positive review, calling it a “beautiful little gem of a flycatcher” Apparently, Indigo Flycatchers mainly hunt in groups, as described here. Must have been a camera fault. The Latin species name of the Penan Bulbul is ruficrissus.

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