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New Zealand’s Other Eagle

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More curious was the owlet-nightjar, an already obscure group to begin with, but made all the more astonishing by virtue of its flightless and ground living lifestyle. And eagles. New Zealand had eagles. Yes, the Chatham Island Sea Eagle was just a Bald Eagle, collected in America and misidentified due to poor record keeping.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. But I am grumbling a little bit about it. Well, Nanhui had some this month.

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