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Bye-bye, birdie

Climate change and human intrusion converge to imperil birds.

With wild eyes and a dishevelled hairdo, Africa's white-crested hornbill (Tropicranus albocristatus) has a distinctly disgruntled look. Whatever is doing the disgruntling, though, has so far not been seen as life threatening. The bird is numerous and secure enough to have been declared of "least concern" by the conservation group BirdLife International.

But that may be about to change...

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