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Flock to Marion

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South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. The Crowned Hornbill is among those hornbills in which during incubation the female seals herself into a tree cavity using her own droppings. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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And whether the return is a permanent one or not remains to be seen as those factors sealing my fate as a regular contributor are still binding me to this day. Yes, Germans were a particularly supersticious breed in the days of old, and would not dare to use the word devil even when cursing. You know, cavity breeders.

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