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Birding St Lucia, South Africa

10,000 Birds

They mostly come to see the hippopotamuses and Nile crocodiles living in and near the Saint Lucia Estuary. Lucia for the birds. One of the most interesting aspects of watching birds in Africa is to see different members of bird families that I already know from China. Different bird families, I know.

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

10,000 Birds

Furthermore, there are six families confined to the Greater Antilles. Within its 400 pages, the Birds of the West Indies covers 712 species, 550 of them regularly occurring and 190 of those endemic to the region, many of them to single islands. The appendix II (pg.