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Snake in the grass… birds mob Puff Adder.

Elsa Bussière and Les G Underhill

Ornithological Observations 2012 3:53-55, published 2012-07-26

Mixed flocks of birds mobbing snakes is a phenomenon that is often talked about but not frequently observed, and even more rarely photographed. These paragraphs and photographs document an incident which took place at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in the Northern Cape at 10:40 on 26 May 2012....

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