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Africa’s remarkable long tailed birds

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Photograph taken in Malaysia’s Taman Negara National Park by Adam Riley. Once the breeding season is over these impressively adorned males lose not only their tails but also all their black plumage, and most of their other colors, in order to blend into the brown winter grasslands they inhabit.

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Finding an Asian Openbill in Singapore-second ever record!

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We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. Other areas of Singapore had not had this level of rubbish, but with the tidal movements in the Johore Strait it appeared much of it ended up her from both Singapore and Malaysia.

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