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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle. The dangers of being a geologist.

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Birding Without Borders: A Review

10,000 Birds

And in India, when Strycker tied the previous one-year record, his guides Sanu and Harsha took a fair amount of trouble to make sure that a special bird, the Sri Lanka Frogmouth (“nocturnal and not easy to see!”) ( Rothschild’s Swift and Mitred Parakeet , ## 342, 343.). was available as the record-breaker, (#4342).

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