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Hornbills of Sabah

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One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. When one Chinese researcher was very bored, he had a bright idea: Why not publish a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Rhinoceros Hornbill ? Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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The 20 best birds of Belgrade and where to find them

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Alpine Swifts breed at only a dozen sites in the country, but since 2018, downtown Belgrade is among them. Eurasian Scops Owl is a bird of open forests and scattered trees, parks, orchards, abandoned houses, etc. It is rarely seen within the city, but is possible anywhere at the outskirts. And statistically, it is true in most cases.

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