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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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Giant anteaters, giant otters, giant armadillos, giant river turtles, giant termites and giant waterlilies that can sustain the weight of a human baby! Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see. Not only is Guyana famous for its birdlife, but it’s also the Land of Giants.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. The Bat Hawk mainly eats bats, as the name suggests – in a curiously precise statement, Wikipedia claims that 49.3% Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. It simple Beats, really it is. 29 Jan 2016.

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