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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. New species started to pop-up like our first sightings of Macaroni Penguins , Blue Petrel, and several prion species that were called out by our expert birding guides using loudhailers, or as we know them in the United States megaphones.

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Review: Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa

10,000 Birds

Whoever is in charge of names in the area had abandoned an unwise relationship with compound names ((meaning Redwinged Starlings were Red-winged Starlings again) and seemed to have shifted the names of lots of species around in the hopes of aligning them with the IOC (goodbye louries).

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