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Seabirding off Cape Point

10,000 Birds

It was a Benguela Nino year, and pelagic seabirds were in super-abundance in the south eastern Atlantic, with the total of species by variety and number exceeding all expectations for the birders on the inaugural trip as we pitched and wallowed about in the rolling swells on our way out to the trawling grounds.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

10,000 Birds

This shows the top birders, by species or checklists submitted. Flushing Meadows Corona Park–Porpoise Bridge. Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. Brown Falcon – Falco berigora. Aplomado Falcon – Falco femoralis.

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