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White-backed Vultures are Proper Birds

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Thanks to a relatively feral childhood I have been left immune to the power of poetry, so I shall dismiss the poetry (a form of art comparable at best to interpretive dance) with a simple dismissive wave of the hand. They are birds at their most composed, soaring effortlessly on thermals across the sky, and birds at their most feral.

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What is a Palm-thrush?

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Mum, Dad, I’m sorry I described my childhood as feral. They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya). As for the rest of you, poking fun at your pseudowarblers is too much fun for me to stop. Bringing food to the young.