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Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

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Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder” series, the fifth and sixth – respectively, A Tiding of Magpies and, now the latest, A Dance of Cranes. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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Birding the Kruger Park (6): Pafuri area part 2

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This is the last post covering my time birding the Kruger Park in November 2018. ” Another study cited in “Wired” states that “For The Green Wood Hoopoe , Middle-Aged Motherhood Is Best”, providing the rationale that “females that attempt to start breeding early in life have a very high mortality rate.”