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The five most unique birds in the world

10,000 Birds

It’s a bat-like cave-dwelling, echolocating, fruit-eating nocturnal species capable of hovering on three-foot wings. The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. We also got great views of a very small mammal, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, at Satara. And, there were birds.