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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. Great horneds are known as the “Tiger of the Woods&# because they’ll hunt anything and they are good at it, but they are slow and stealthy. He returned less than 30 minutes later with surprising news.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

A bull, cow and calf Cape or African Buffalo in Kruger National Park by Adam Riley (note the attendant Red-billed Oxpeckers!) They are one of the four existing species in the genus Panthera , and with males weighing in at up to 550lbs are second in size only to Tigers.

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