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Kenyan LBJ’s (The Sequel)!

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To follow on from that, I decided to include a few other often-overlooked birds from my travels to Kenya. I learned that Stout Cisticolas often stick together in small groups. I was thrilled to see a Lesser Honeyguide – the relationship between honeyguides and humans dates back to early hominids, a whopping 1.9

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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert is Managing Director of Bird Uganda Safaris, LTD and his company offers a variety of birding and wildlife tours of the most naturally resplendent regions of Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe. Herbert holds a B.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Your argument is invalid. Binford is absolutely correct about his concerns and you would know that I agree with him if you’d only read my latest paper.

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What is a Palm-thrush?

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This time it is the Old World that has misnamed a group of birds, or in fact several groups. As noted in their entry the Handbook of the Birds of the World, they are unusual in their close association with palms (hence the name) and in building mud nests (in palms or human buildings). Bringing food to the young.

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72 dangerous animals africa

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The spotted hyena displays greater plasticity in its hunting and foraging behaviour than other African carnivores it hunts alone, in small parties of 2–5 individuals or in large groups. aethiopicus , but today that scientific name is restricted to the desert warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

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Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Shame on the researchers.

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Africa’s Barbets

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Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics. The four Gymnobucco species are Africa’s least observed group of barbets as they are restricted to the less visited tropics of central and west Africa.

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