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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

10,000 Birds

End result – precious birding time lost and 43 adopted African kids. We stopped, wound down the window and started making squeaking sounds by rubbing our fingers over our teeth. He had mistakenly walked into a nice clump of buffalo bean whilst chasing a Singing Cisticola. I’ll never forget the sight.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ).