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Pink in Africa

10,000 Birds

Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. There are certainly some stunners involved. Pink-throated Twinspot. Photo by Adam Riley. Pink-breasted Lark.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

10,000 Birds

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

Since the 1990s, Briggs has researched and authored several pioneering Bradt Guides to destinations that were then – and in some cases still are – otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry. He is a guidebook writer, mostly specialised in African travel.

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