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Mountain Bluebirds at Lassen Volcanic National Park

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At this location you will certainly find a few of the most common mammal species in the park including the American Pika… Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel… and the Yellow-bellied Marmot. You can download their bird list here. Then he would fly down to the ground… to capture insects.

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Cavity Nesting Birds of North America and Their Babies!

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Even though they naturally nest in burrows mainly created by ground squirrels, badgers and prairie dogs, Burrowing Owls ( Athene cunicularia ) also use artificial burrows. If you want to download the PDF file quoted at the beginning of this post, simply click on the link in the references below. References: 1 Scott, Virgil E.,

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Finding an Asian Openbill in Singapore-second ever record!

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Downloading the photos to a computer we realised we did in fact have a photo of an Asian Openbill. Squirrels, water monitors, lizards, wild boar, macaque monkeys and more had too often stopped us in our tracks when we heard leaves rustling or odd sounds initially! We spent most of the morning walking around the reserve slowly.

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