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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.

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Northern Cable Beach birding

10,000 Birds

Once you reach Coconut Wells the road bears to your right and just as the bitumen ends you take a left turn towards the beach. I investigated where the Beach Stone-curlew had been and noticed it had recently deposited a small pile of waste.

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