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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

10,000 Birds

Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. Apologies – I have not taken my anti-cynicism medication for a while now, and it starts to show). 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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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

Dr Smith was later in charge of medical services in the Crimea but had a feud with Florence Nightingale and was severely criticized for mismanagement, yet despite this he was knighted in 1859. The nearest population to them is several thousand miles north in Malawi and southern Tanzania. Image by Hugh Chittenden.