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A Photographic Guide to the Wildlife of Seychelles by Chris Mason-Parker

10,000 Birds

“M had told Bond he was sending him to the Seychelles. ” Indeed, there is one distinctly birding connection to this country: a famous birder Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, visited the Seychelles in 1958 looking for inspiration for his then-latest collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only. .'”

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The man who saved species

10,000 Birds

It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. In both cases the situation actually got worse before it got better, particularly in the case of the Black Robin, which declined to single figures and a single breeding female, the indomitable Old Blue. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves.

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