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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ). Mostly just oversized grey mammals there, not too many birds. T his is an African Sacred Ibis at Ndumo.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I Years ago I was handling a Barred Owl without gloves (I’ve since learned my lesson), my attention slipped, and one of his talons went through the webbing between my second and third finger,” said Tracy Anderson. .