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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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It was founded as a safe place for refugees from the Mozambique Civil War , which ran from 1977 to 1992. It is a good place for South African birders, as several species are found here and nowhere else in South Africa, and it holds a small number of endemics that it shares with the Mozambique lowlands.

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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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