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The latter include the critically endangered white-eyed river-martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae), the globally threatened Bengal florican (Eupodotis bengalensis), and the endangered greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) and white-shouldered ibis (Pseudibis davisoni).
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Although unsuitable for agriculture, areas that have been degraded to reed beds nonetheless are still important sites for waterfowl, providing feeding grounds for the eastern sarus crane (Grus antigone), white-shouldered ibis (P. davisoni), and near-endemic giant ibis (Pseudibis gigantea) (Table 2).
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A flock of one of the world's most endangered birds the white-shouldered ibis has been discovered in a remote province in northeast Cambodia, a conservationist said Monday.
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Unless you've got some kind of personal problem with the white-shouldered ibis, this one pretty much speaks for itself.
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A flock of between 20 and 30 white-shouldered ibis, a critically endangered species with only 250 existing in the wild, was found in a protected wetland in Stung Treng province, said ecological adviser Kong Kimsreng of the Mekong
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A flock of one of the world's most endangered birds the white-shouldered ibis has been discovered in a remote province in northeast Cambodia, a conservationist said Monday.
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A flock of between 20 and 30 white-shouldered ibis, a critically endangered species with only 250 existing in the wild, was found in a protected wetland in Stung Treng province, said ecological adviser Kong Kimsreng of the Mekong
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Unless you've got some kind of personal problem with the white-shouldered ibis, this one pretty much speaks for itself.
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Rather a ponderous, white-shouldered weight, pressing terribly on the earth, and murmuring like two watchful lions.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Monkish herbs and sweet-smelling old-world flowers grew modestly in this domain once sacred to the chatelaine of Hatton; and Paul kept ghostly tryst with a white-shouldered lady whose hair was dressed high upon her head, and powdered withal, and to whose bewitching red lips the amorous glance was drawn by a patch cunningly placed beside a dimple.
The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921
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