This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The secretary bird gets its name from its resemblance to male secretaries, of the 1800s. Back then they wore dark, knee-length pants and gray tailcoats, with goose-quill pens stashed behind their ear. Loosely related to vultures, buzzards, harriers, and even kites, these birds (on the contrary) spend most of their […]

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