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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

10,000 Birds

I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time). Is it offensive to say that Australian Zebra Finches breed like rabbits? My fault, I know.

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Birding St Lucia, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Apparently, while in Egypt waiting for a boat to return to Germany he collected specimens of the bird which is now named after him. Though I actually quite like zebras. Kittlitz’s Plover is named after Friedrich Heinrich, Freiherr von Kittlitz (1799-1874), a Prussian artist, explorer and naturalist.