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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

An impressive Rhinoceros Beetle by Adam Riley Lion The big – Lions are ferocious predatory felids that used to range through most of the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa, but are now restricted to tiny wildernesses in Africa and one relict population in the Gir Forest of western India.

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