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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. He was also nearly strangled by a pet python that he kept. Here is one: when taking photos of elephants, an 800 mm tele lens is not the best equipment.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.

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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

These hornbills have the well-tried breeding strategy of enclosing the female in a tree hole. When I asked for one in a German pet shop, they just laughed at me. His music is rather bad, after all. If you want to think what a female thinks about this approach, look here for a cartoon (note: with bonus covid joke).

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