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Danum Valley: Simply the Best

10,000 Birds

There wasn’t much around, and aside from a lifer Yellow-bellied Bulbul the two most impressive species were heard not seen – a Blue-headed Pitta an a Banded Kingfisher. Two highlights of the walk back were a bright green Greater Green Leafbird and a Lesser Fish Eagle following the road above our heads. Did I mention them?

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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

10,000 Birds

There are important details within that dictum that we will ignore here, but this has to do with knowing when a characteristic doesn’t really tell you about the relative position of species on a “tree of life” vs when the characteristic works for that purpose. Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans.

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