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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Here local hunters who had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. It occurs from south-west Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea (both mainland and on the island of Bioko), Cameroon and Gabon.

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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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