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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). The Bat Hawk mainly eats bats, as the name suggests – in a curiously precise statement, Wikipedia claims that 49.3% Back to birds. Then, there are raptors.

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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

10,000 Birds

One night three great fruit bats flew over the face of the moon. He does, though, offer a hunch – that the resident pair are “protecting sky space.”). The first is from the American naturalist William Beebe: “I was walking across our compound last month when a queen termite began building her miraculous city.

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