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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ). And this is (a bad photo of) an African Sacred Ibis mummy in the British Museum in London (found in Egypt). T his is an African Sacred Ibis at Ndumo.