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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. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. meters, they still lost some of their prey to Fish Eagles.

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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

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Due to some misallocation of bird species, I saw the Bateleur Eagle near Malelane, not near Bateleur Camp, where a more professional marketing team would have located the bird. These hornbills have the well-tried breeding strategy of enclosing the female in a tree hole. His music is rather bad, after all.

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