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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. The birds forage in flocks and members are believed to stay on nearby if one is killed, according to the Lothas, they will wait to be killed and the hunter would soon see people around him die in quick succession one after another.”

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Survival of the Flexible

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This particular example of flexibility comes from Tern Island, in French Frigate Shoals to the north of Hawaii. Seeing birds suffer is never fun, but never more so than these trusting and uncomplaining young giants that sat all day like contemplative zen masters, meditating in the intense tropical sun. And the hole looks fairly fresh.

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