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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

10,000 Birds

They also occur in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea. From previous experience we have had an 11/12 success rate at this site, sometimes the views are fleeting and other times the birds provide a breathtaking show! Gray-necked Picathartes foraging in leaf-litter on the forest floor in Korup National Park, Cameroon.

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Swift Departures 

10,000 Birds

Erecting boxes in church towers is now accepted practice, and supported by the Church of England, though persuading church wardens to support such projects can be hard work, as I have found from my own experience. One tagged individual spent 15 days in Liberia, before flying 5,000km in five days to reach its nesting site in southern England.

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