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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

The room was one stuffed with pillows – it seems some landlords think the more pillows are in a room, the cozier the place is. 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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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. Indeed, positive assortative mating, based on culmen length, tarsus length, and body mass, was found across breeding pairs. Unfortunately, their overall nesting success was only 18%. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e.

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