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15 Australian Birds (Episode 3)

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” It might be better to adopt a random male teenager right away. Wikipedia uses the same source to provide the same information as for the Little Pied Cormorant on the appearance of the eggs over time: “They become increasingly stained with feces, as does the nest, over the duration of the breeding season.”

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 2)

10,000 Birds

A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors. The Orange-bellied Leafbird tends not to be very amused when hearing a Bronzed Drongo imitating it. ” Oh my, are we important.

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