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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. Despite the Cattle Egret ‘s rapid expansion there are some areas that Cattle Egrets once occupied, but have now abandoned for reasons that are as unclear as the expansion was to begin with.

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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 2)

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Greater Coucal body parts are used as traditional medicine by the Malays in Kuok Village in Indonesia ( source ). Traditional wisdom sometimes is massively overrated. Then again, smaller birds might think of this superstition when reading a paper on a Greater Coucal feeding on a Common Myna.

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