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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

Call me old fashioned if you like, but I rather like many of these old names, as they put a bit of colour and interest into birding, especially if you bother to investigate who exactly the birds are named after. Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds. Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal. Mago National Park certainly deserved more exploration and I wished we had time to investigate the well appointed campsites along the Mago River.

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