The Secretary

Look at those long legs!   Have you ever had the privilege of watching a secretary bird tackling a poisonous snake? It is quite something to watch!  Enough to cause me to pause a while and watch these things strutting around in the veld, in the hopes of seeing it again.   (From David Bygott, ”Silly Birds” , Zimbabwe) Clearly I was not the only one to make this association about the leggy secretary!

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