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

10,000 Birds

Above the gardens a wheedling just fledged Gymnogene begged fro food from its long suffering parent. 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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