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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Africa’s endangered species

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The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

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She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. On the other hand, compared to the Laughing Dove , human life is still pretty long. A study found that Laughing Doves at a South African reserve have a life expectancy of 0.83 Please insert your own dirty joke relating to humans here. Red-billed Firefinch. Poor creatures.