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Birding Dongfang and Dongzhai on Hainan

10,000 Birds

Here, nervous Cattle Egrets trying to quit smoking pace restlessly on buffalos. As it seems to be the custom for birds of prey, its name has been taken by an Indian Navy helicopter base (INS Shikra) and adopted as a mascot by 149 Squadron of the Singaporean Air Force (Wikipedia).

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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