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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

10,000 Birds

A falconer and his bird from the Mosaico de Cavaleiro in Mértola, possibly the oldest depiction of falconry in Iberia. Colorful birds adorn many of the pages of the so-called Cervera Bible and several captivating miniatures portray hunting scenes with falcons.

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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. The tall flower studded grasses to the north were a mess of seed-eaters from the Red-billed Quellea to the astonishing Long-tailed Widowbird , a sparrow-sized bird with a massive tail twice as long as its body.

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