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Striding Snake-killers

10,000 Birds

Secretarybirds seem more crane than raptor as their four-foot frames stride across the open plains of places like the Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana. In reality this is not true and they can easily succumb to the venom of many of Africa’s poisonous serpents. So long that they have to crouch to drink or pick up food.

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