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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. I agree with eBird that the Asian Glossy Starling is “fierce-looking” Appropriately, it is an invasive species in places such as Taiwan, where some papers recommend reducing the population.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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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. They are farmed worldwide, with significant industries in the Philippines and in Namibia. Ostrich eggs have been used by humans for millennia.

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Birding Without Borders: A Review

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In other words, as a group Strycker’s guides are as colorful and interesting, and as much a part of the book, as the birds themselves. “When all your energy is focused on a single purpose,” he says, “nothing else seems to matter. That feeling can be incredibly seductive.”

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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One group is trying to make a better list of which species of birds to pretend to be doing something about vis-a-vis imminent extinction using a unique approach: Identifying the most genetically unique species. I got it on “film” using my camera, but they were so far away you can only see them for a second, and you can only see a few hundred.

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Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide–A Review

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I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. The Species Accounts vary in length from one to three pages.