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Birding the Sittee River

10,000 Birds

Soon this strategy paid off, as we came across a Gray Hawk right along the edge of the river. It is a common bird itself but I had never managed to see one so well even though I butchered the photographic opportunity. “ Bare-throated Tiger-Heron !” Bare-throated Tiger-Heron. adult Common Black Hawk.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

They could also give bones to a lion (lions are easy to come by), and they could simulate an early human ancestor butchering an animal with stone tools (we Africanists normally do this at parties). This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.

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