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Still, I did manage to see a decent 65 species in 6 hours, and many of them stayed quite close to me, allowing for some nice photos. Black-and-white Warblers are usually dapper little birds, with their head-to-tail zebra stripes. The lovely Rufous-capped Warbler is something of a flagship species for this site.

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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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Even better, just a few meters away from the food vendors, it is not too crowded, and the palm trees attract a number of birds, including two species of parrots. That is mainly the Philippines, as indicated by the species name lucionensis (Luzon is the Philippines’ biggest island). The first one is the Blue-naped Parrot.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. ” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms.

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Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park and Lower Peirce Reservoir-Singapore

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By the time we reached the Upper Thomson Road we had a spent three hours sauntering through the park and had a list of over forty bird species. We had learnt from signs over the days we had been in Singapore that they have a problem with people dumping unwanted pets and we presume this to be the case in the reservoir.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Elephant The big – two species of elephant are now recognized as occuring in Africa, the smaller and more secretive Forest Elephant and the larger, more familiar African or Bush Elephant. The little – the two species of black Buffalo Weavers obtain their appellation from their dark coloration that resembles their fearsome namesake.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. All birds are equal on this list; parking lot birds or pelagic species, breeders or fly-overs, all will be accorded the same status and each shall be worth 1 credit on the list. Zebra Finch – Taeniopygia guttata. It simple Beats, really it is. 04 Feb 2016.

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