10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Black-rumped Magpie is one of the four new species that were split from the Eurasian Magpie in 2018. To enhance this image, they very much like to pose on power lines. Not very subtle in their self-presentation, these birds. It might be about time for HBW to document this split as well … not sure why they do not update this.

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Birds Germany India 2018 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

A paper titled “Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus may adapt well to life in urban areas across its range in Asia” already made the same observation in 2018. The likely explanation is that she may still carry sperm from a previous mating with another male, and he wants to avoid raising chicks he has not fathered ( source ).

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147