Cape Verde, Humane and Species - Animal Rights Zone

It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A study has shown that they make false alarm calls when seeing other species such as meerkats with attractive food. The Green-winged Pytilia was previously mostly called Melba Finch, which is also its Latin species name (melba), even though nobody seems to be quite clear about what the melba means or where it comes from.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

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