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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Ndumo Game Reserve lies in the Easternmost part of South Africa, close to the border of Mozambique and Eswatini. Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos.

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KwaZulu-Natal

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He discovered Rudd’s Lark at Wakkerstroom and in Southern Mozambique he collected the first specimens of Rudd’s Apalis , Neergaard’s Sunbird and rediscovered Pink-throated Twinspot (which had been “missing” since the 1820’s when the Verreauxs erroneously claimed to have collected it in Cape Town.) Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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Swift Departures 

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Here in my home county of Suffolk the Suffolk Bird Group, together with the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, campaigns for Swifts under the SOS (Save our Swifts) banner, installing boxes on houses, churches, libraries, even cinemas, as well as raising public awareness of the Swift’s plight.

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