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Teal Lake Shiraz (2019)

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Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. The quacker in question was named Ripper, a drake Musk Duck raised at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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Nevertheless, Chapin held out against both common sense and much scientific opinion, concluding that ‘it is more closely allied to the true peacocks than to any other genus of Phasianidae , and we fail to see that it shows any tendency to approach the guinea fowls, as has been suggested by others’.

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