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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

10,000 Birds

We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros. Fast-forward to the present murky sky and the 1,215 rhino butchered last year.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

As we made our way around the island in a clockwise direction we continually saw large numbers of Rhinoceros Auklets , which are so clumsy on land that they must wait for the cover of darkness to get back to their burrows to feed their young. It was amazing to see the ruckus a single eagle could create by overflying the gull colony.