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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 ). The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique.

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Starlings and Eagles

10,000 Birds

If we were just birders, or photographers, this would be dreadful behavior, but we were here to watch people engaged in Science. And Science requires Sacrifice. Any bird that was wounded — and a bander could often prevent that fate by firing the net quickly enough — was nursed back to health. Do I sound facetious?

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