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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

10,000 Birds

Even better, just a few meters away from the food vendors, it is not too crowded, and the palm trees attract a number of birds, including two species of parrots. That is mainly the Philippines, as indicated by the species name lucionensis (Luzon is the Philippines’ biggest island). The first one is the Blue-naped Parrot.

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

The idea is that some finches from what is now Ecuador ended up on the Galapagos Islands, and subsequently diversified into a number of different forms … they speciated … filling various niches that on the mainland would have been filled by a number of different species. That is from Darwin’s ornithological notes.

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