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Willie Creek

10,000 Birds

The first creek to the north is Willie Creek and we often visit it on the south side when we monitor the breeding pairs of Pied Oystercatchers. Beach Stone-curlews Although the majority of shorebirds have ventured north to breed in the northern hemisphere we do still have birds here. There were some rather nice specimens.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

10,000 Birds

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. Gray-necked Picathartes foraging in leaf-litter on the forest floor in Korup National Park, Cameroon. They also occur in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea.