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Tanzania – Africa at its best

10,000 Birds

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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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. In the case of some of the weavers, like the Southern Red Bishop , the alternation was contained within a single species. Common Fiscal using a sculpture as a perch to watch for prey.

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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. Campbell Park, Canberra. A Speckled Warbler.

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