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Namibia’s 15 key birds

10,000 Birds

After a brutal colonization that included genocidal campaigns against the Herero (80% killed) and Nama (50% killed) tribes, the Germans lost control when South Africa invaded soon after the declaration of the First World War. A Rüppell’s Parrot perched in an Acacia tree near a dry riverbed in Omaruru, central Namibia.

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