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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

10,000 Birds

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Simply, many birders liked the idea of birding Africa but did not know enough to choose a single country (or two neigbouring countries, such as Malawi and Zambia).

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

The nearest population to them is several thousand miles north in Malawi and southern Tanzania. This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590. Image by Hugh Chittenden. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

And the answer to the question I am raising here is, yes, I would travel to Sri Lanka in the next period. These include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique and Rwanda, among others, all of which are regularly updated for new editions. What makes this guide different from many others?

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