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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

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Green-rumped Parrotlets: from egg to adult Text and photographs copyright Nick Sly (except Rae Okawa where indicated) and are used with his permission. She lays an egg every day or two until completing a clutch of anywhere from five to ten eggs. My co-worker thinks a better name for them is porcupine parrotlets.

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Striding Snake-killers

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The quills of the “Saqu Ettair” Secretarybirds feed on small lizards, insects, rodents, birds eggs and, of course, snakes. Our task was not made any easier by the many potholes and porcupine burrows. was relentlessly pursuing the smaller bird, probably a female.

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