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

10,000 Birds

Groups of Cape Turtle Doves feeding on the grass were occasionally joined by a nervous and much larger Rameron Pigeon, and Southern Grey-headed Sparrows and a single Bokmakierie hoped around as well. Mousebirds are a uniquely African family and they really brought it home to me that I was back in Africa after a decade. The Gardens.

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Campbell Park, Canberra

10,000 Birds

Australia’s capital, set in the eucalypt-studded Great Dividing Ranges, has not got a fantastic reputation as an exciting place to be, but in truth its an attractive garden city with a lot of green spaces, parks, and other pleasant paces that make it a nice place to live. A Speckled Warbler.

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