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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique. In a 1946 paper , it is called “under-wing fishing”, while nowadays the term “canopy fishing” seems to be preferred.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard.

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