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12 countries with the greatest bird species density

10,000 Birds

With an excellent safety record and quickly improving standards of nature protection and tourism infrastructure, Rwanda is a rising ecotourism star of this group. The key areas are Kotu Creek (most hotels are there), Abuko NR, Tanji, Brufut Community Forest, Tujareng, Makasutu Cultural Forest, Kiang West NP and the neighbouring Tendaba Camp.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

10,000 Birds

Here local people consider these birds the sacred guardians of their nesting rock formations (which are believed to house ancestral spirits), and have protected their colonies for generations. They also occur in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea.