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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. One solution employed at Kinabatangan is the use of artificial nesting holes – they look fairly unattractive in my eyes but seem to be accepted by Rhinoceros Hornbills. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

The Natal Spurfowl forages on rhinoceros and elephant dung (HBW) and does so without complaining. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. And I do not even want to think about which part of an old man’s anatomy the throat pouch reminds me of.

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