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Birding the Kruger Park (5): Pafuri area part 1

10,000 Birds

Well, actually the study does not really call these mistletoe nesters stupid – that would be a bit too unkind, apparently – but rather states that “nesting in mistletoe may be maladaptive” Somehow this seems like a good moment to mention the Darwin Awards but as far as I know, they are only given to humans, not to animals.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Rhinoceros Auklet – Cerorhinca monocerata. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cutler Wetlands.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Rhinoceros Auklet – Cerorhinca monocerata. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cutler Wetlands.

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