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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

10,000 Birds

Kibale Forest NP–Primate Lodge. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 28 Nov 2019. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. 28 Nov 2019. Green-throated Sunbird – Chalcomitra rubescens. 27 Nov 2019. Chubb’s Cisticola – Cisticola chubbi. UG-Hoima-Kabarole (0.6541,30.2827). 27 Nov 2019. 01 Nov 2019. Cerro Lodge.

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