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Cuckoo for Congo

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Yet now it’s been discovered they are all now relatively close, in the Congo rainforest, despite having travelled around 3,000 miles south. Neat, right? Incredibly, three are about as close to each other as they were when they were caught in Norfolk and Suffolk in May and June.

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Mad about the Congo

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The rebel forces in the Congo have controlled the gorilla sector of Virunga since 2007. Right now, I am frustrated with the EU and the UN. Tags: virunga congo gorillas. I suppose I've come to this pretty late and gorilla people already knew that this trouble was brewing. So that leaves us with the UN and the EU.

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

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601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. 801-1000 sp. –

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

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In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl. The revelation of the Congo Peacock to the ornithological community is one of the greatest bird stories of the twentieth century… Other birds are included for the very reason that they are extremely well known.

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. It’s amazing how personal the book can be.

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The Storks of Africa

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Marabous occur throughout tropical and subtropical Africa from Zululand in northern South Africa right up to the arid Sahel region fringing the Sahara Desert, avoiding the closed canopy rainforest zones of central and west Africa.

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The Bee-eaters of Africa

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In Africa, our bee-eaters occur from the southern tip of the continent right through to the far north, occupying an incredible range of habitats and niches, from the interior of the deepest rainforests of the Congo to the arid steppes of the Sahel. European Bee-eaters can be found through-out Africa at the right time of year.

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