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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. The Bat Hawk mainly eats bats, as the name suggests – in a curiously precise statement, Wikipedia claims that 49.3% At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Then, there are raptors.

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Birding in Honduras, Part I: Highlands

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Birds came fast during the first few hours, including a wide array of classic Neotropical species such as Keel-billed Toucan , Bat Falcon , Bright-rumped Attila , Buff-throated Saltator , and Boat-billed Flycatcher. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering.