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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). With a picture of the then-queen of Thailand on it, if I remember correctly. of its hunts are successful. Back to birds. Then, there are raptors.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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The program has been successful enough that some of the birds have been released back into protected areas in California, Arizona, and across the border in Baja, but the species is still far from out of the woods. Vulture Hunts Down and Ravages Sea Turtles – Dale Forbes, 10,000 Birds. Old Wold Vultures. Assorted Vultures.

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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Later, Harry Fuller, President of the Klamath Bird Observatory, led us to an open meadow where we saw a pair of Great Gray Owls hunting in a meadow. Carlos chose a pigeon that pretty much everyone should want to see: My best bird of the year came right at the beginning of January as I was wrapping up my travels in Thailand.

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What Exactly is a Pardalote?

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Insofar as they relate to other bird families, they are perhaps closest to the thornbills, another family that is mostly Australian but reaches as far as Thailand and Fiji. Lerps are the carbohydrate rich protective shells exuded by tiny bugs (hermipteras) that suck sugars out of the leaves of eucalypts.

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