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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). The dangers of being a geologist. If you want to know how not to build attractive nests, you may want to look up a paper on the nest of a Yellow-eared Spiderhunter.

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72 dangerous animals africa

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They are the heaviest and largest living birds, with adult common ostriches weighing anywhere between 140-320 lbs and laying the largest eggs of any living land animal. They are farmed worldwide, with significant industries in the Philippines and in Namibia. Ostrich eggs have been used by humans for millennia.

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Birding Shanghai in September 2022

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The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). Here’s another cuckoo undergoing a pre-flight check.

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