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Zoo Miami has been tending to the hatching of a cinereous vulture, a harpy eagle and a pair of Abdim’s storks. Most of the new birds can now be seen by the public, but some will spend quality time ...
Incredible, first-of-its-kind footage reveals a tiny swallow's battle for survival inside a mammoth sandstorm as it migrates across the Sahara Desert. The bird ... to southern Africa, and then ...
The Egyptian Plover is a tiny bird in Africa that has an unusual bond with crocodiles. The plover has a free lunch, and the ...
A small but significant conservation miracle ... to secure the future of wild vulture populations in southern Africa. The bird was a red-billed oxpecker, one of 52 relocated from the Kruger ...
Their bills can be massive (pelicans, toucans), tiny (weebills), or as ... the secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) of the African savanna looks like a cross between a crane and an eagle.
Think about the scavenger bird and images of disease and ... according to BirdLife International, and only a small percentage of that figure in South Africa. Wolter notes that in parts of KwaZulu ...
Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an artificial dam outside South Africa's ...
The newly discovered species is a "relatively small bird, something the size of between a pigeon and a starling," says Chiappe. "It would have been an active flier, fully feathered." Sponsor ...