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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. But this is too interesting a bird not to show.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 7)

10,000 Birds

The city of Salisbury, Australia describes them as “the most naturally inquisitive, intelligent, playful, (and destructive!) In the southwestern of Western Australia (not where these photos were taken), the Little Corella actually is an introduced bird species listed as a category 3 declared pest ( source ).

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