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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

There are few areas of the world where they have been introduced and not survived (Greenland and Cape Verde are examples of this bird’s local demise). Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. When a car comes along they fly away.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

10,000 Birds

I guess most scientists would love to see their original research become the basis for a vast field of further studies. Other people – ornithologists, perhaps – ask whether Cape Verde kites exist ( probably not ). ” If you happen to be a European Bee-eater , you are in luck. .”