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In the meantime, in order to rectify this I present some images of the Village Weaver, a widespread African species that ranges from Senegal to Ethiopia and down to South Africa. As their name suggests they are happy enough to live close to human settlements.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Cormorants and darters have gotten a bad rap throughout human history. They eat all our gamefish and scare off the ducks and their guano is a threat to human health. Crowned Cormorant , South Africa, by Adam Riley These characterizations are not fair! They’re seen as bad luck, as fish gluttons, as evil spirits.

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APRIL 16, 2013

More recently a study of Babblers in South Africa may have demonstrated a similar kind of extortion. We are speaking of the Pied Babbler ( Turdoides bicolor ) of the Kalahari in South Africa. . “If you don’t feed me right way, I’m taking off this wing and your reproductive success is done!”

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MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. We are not counting insects.)

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 195

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MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible. They are also attracted by fires and can gather in thousands.

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MARCH 13, 2020

One of the world’s most handsome and successfully introduced gamebirds, the Common Pheasant has been well-established for centuries — thanks to human trade — far outside of its original range in the Balkans and the foothills of the Caucasus, first in Roman times across most of Europe, and later in North America (beginning in 1773).

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. Black Rhinos are best sought in South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 202

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). I also blogged about that dreamy day. Travel is good for the birding soul.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 188

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MARCH 13, 2012

mi (almost exactly the same size as Indiana), it is one of the smaller provinces of South Africa, but is the second most densely populated with over 10 million inhabitants. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa. I live in a city called Pietermaritzburg, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal province.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 187

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. There are a lot of reasons why Painted Wolves are struggling, and many of them are human caused.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here! I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

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APRIL 19, 2011

And every so often the experience is heightened by witnessing a challenging species doing something extraordinary, giving me a unique perspective into its shy life that is, for the most part, hidden from human eyes. However there are places where, with a little human ingenuity, one can see even very rare species with some ease.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Here is a sneak peek: Mark Thompson, the former host of Guinness World Records Primetime and Fox’s Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage, will co-host Shark Attack Experiment LIVE with Anna Gilligan, former Fox News Channel personality, from Rocky Bay, South Africa, commonly referred to as “Shark Park.” Color, contrast and shiny surfaces.

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Sharks Experience Experiments South Africa 100

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MARCH 1, 2016

But, life can be kind, and after getting stuck between two rocks and then, getting unstuck, repositioning the vehicle on the other side of the prostrate tiger (who seemed oblivious to the silly humans), we got a clear view and the tiger decided his nap was over. India was not on my list of places to go in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

African cheaters include the African Paradise Flycatcher (Kruger Park, South Africa) … … and the African Penguin (Boulder’s Beach, South Africa) – here shown at a rock festival some distance away from the main stage, maybe a bit too close to the toilets. The actual line for the toilets.

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MAY 8, 2011

Rather, he was a handy cat, one who could escape from all cages; one who could rouse his humans from a deep sleep as he played with anything and everything they dared to leave on the kitchen counter; one who could even, despite all odds, teach dog-only hearts to open up and love the newest member of their family. I’m Here too!”

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APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

There are also dry areas but this great diversity has resulted in an incredible bird list of over 900 species including Africa’s 2nd highest count of endemics (after South Africa). They have a complex social structure, the study of which has been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior.

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JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 211

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MAY 8, 2013

Cape Vultures in South Africa – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. Vultures, Human Evolution, and Windmills – Greg Laden, 10,000 Birds. Vulture Hunts Down and Ravages Sea Turtles – Dale Forbes, 10,000 Birds. California Condor, Gymnogyps californianus. Cape Vulture , Gyps coprotheres. I and the Bird vultures'

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 181

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

With a trip to South Africa on the horizon at the time, I thought I could handle it. Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity.

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JULY 10, 2012

The Gray Crowned-Crane is resident throughout most of southern and east Africa, but its population is estimated to have declined more than 50% over the past 19 years. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 189

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AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 204

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JANUARY 10, 2022

That is an easy trick – capture a bird in a seemingly human pose, just to attract sympathy for the bird. Greater Flamingo (Cape Town, South Africa). Bela Lugosi is dead and no longer relevant. There are much better metaphors for mind-body dualism than owls with fake eyes on the backside of their head. Eurasian (?)

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JULY 3, 2012

They can reach heights of up to 5 ft 7 inches, taller than many adult humans. But they are believed to have previously occurred over a much wider area, including coastal West Africa and much of the wetlands of South Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?

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Botswana South Africa Africa Ethiopia 150

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Pafuri lies in the northernmost part of the Kruger National Park and is described as “some of the most potentially productive birding territory in South Africa” on the SANParks website. ” (HBW).

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

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MARCH 17, 2022

And those we see constantly stop passers-by to ask for the way to either Siberia or South Africa, depending on the season. The Northern Goshawk gets the HBW into a slightly lyrical mode: “Whether carried afield on the fists of Japanese shoguns or by medieval falconers of Europe, Goshawks have seen much human history.

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Falcons Japan China South Africa 242

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JULY 16, 2013

I grew up in one of the most beautiful cities in the world – Cape Town, South Africa. In fact, there is no other region in Africa that offers such a fantastic level of endemism in such an accessible location. Birding Birds penguins South Africa Worldwide Birding Adventures'

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 215

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I had planned to do another story today, but my laptop, sick of endless David Attenborough DVDs, Skyrim and searches of birding in South Africa made a break for it and took a swan dive off my bed. Bats, it seems, are the reservoir of many zoonoses that cause humans, and other creatures, so many issues.

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Pythons Bats Uganda Burundi 183

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MARCH 25, 2015

When I got to South Africa though I was struck with some indecision. How many copies of Sasol does one human need? In particular the GPS function didn’t seem to work in Botswana and Zimbabwe (I am, I have to confess, guessing there was a GPS function as it seemed to work in South Africa in areas with no signal.

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Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 153

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MARCH 18, 2015

As a bonus, they are often heavily visited and as a consequence the birds found in them are used to large numbers of people having picnics, regarding begonias, dating, courting, playing Frisbee, and are therefore untroubled by humans regarding them carefully. Birding Cape Town South Africa Urban Birding' I don’t know.

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Africa Birds South Africa Mongoose 185

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

On the other hand, compared to the Laughing Dove , human life is still pretty long. A study found that Laughing Doves at a South African reserve have a life expectancy of 0.83 Please insert your own dirty joke relating to humans here. years during the first year after ringing and a further 1.5 Poor creatures.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 185

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

If you like turkeys but just not that way, you might want to try a more humane and esoteric main course like Tofurky. Hope you find yourself somewhere as beautiful as Rooiels in South Africa ! Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Wherever you are, keep your eyes to the skies.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Nowhere in the world are birds as colorful, easy to see and abundant as in Africa! Birding here is a joy, further augmented by the world’s most intact mammalian megafuana, fascinating tribal cultures, breath-taking scenery and the cradle of human history. And Africa is the ONLY continent without an extinct bird to boot!

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APRIL 10, 2012

White-chested Tinkerbird is one of Africa’s avian mysteries, known only from a single specimen collected in 1964 at Mayau in north-west Zambia, close to the borders of Angola and the DRC. In South Africa Green Barbet occurs only in Ngoye Forest, a tiny forest patch in Zululand, and this form is often split off as Woodward’s Barbet.

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APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!). They are software mascots, cartoon characters, animated film dancers, children’s book heroes, zoo celebrities, and documentary film stars.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 198

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Contributions this month have come from; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Mexico, Serbia, South Africa, UK, Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin.

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