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Campbell Park, Canberra

10,000 Birds

Australia’s capital, set in the eucalypt-studded Great Dividing Ranges, has not got a fantastic reputation as an exciting place to be, but in truth its an attractive garden city with a lot of green spaces, parks, and other pleasant paces that make it a nice place to live. A Speckled Warbler.

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Moorcroft Manor, a Great Place to Lay a Birding Head Down

10,000 Birds

Mousebirds are a uniquely African family and they really brought it home to me that I was back in Africa after a decade. Red-knobbed Coots and Little Dabchicks patrolled the water’s surface, and every now and then a nervous flock or Yellow-billed Duck would land and then quickly leave.

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