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Protecting the Plains-wanderer, Australia’s Odd Inland Shorebird

Adult female plains-wanderer have a distinctive black-and-white collar and a red breast.

© Daniel Terrington

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These flesh-eating centipedes hunt and eat baby birds alive.

Giant, carnivorous centipedes on a South Pacific island can kill and eat up to 3,700 seabird chicks every year, a new study has revealed.

Phillip Island centipedes (Cormocephalus coynei) are ferocious beasties, growing up to nearly 1 foot (30 centimeters) long, clad in armored plates along their segments and equipped with a potent venom that they inject into unwitting victims through pincer-like "forcipules".

(Image credit: Daniel Terrington via Luke Halpin

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Yep, bird-eating centipedes exist

This heavy-armoured, 23.5cm long Phillip Island centipede rules Phillip Island, preying on its seabird chicks.

Image credit: Daniel Terrington