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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Ndumo Game Reserve lies in the Easternmost part of South Africa, close to the border of Mozambique and Eswatini. In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? UysI and G.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 2)

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Another bulbul with a crest is the Crested Finchbill , though by adopting the name finchbill rather than bulbul, it seems to want to keep a certain distance from its relatives (I can understand that feeling very well). ” Oh my, are we important. But maybe this will concern some Floridians less.

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