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Birding Mkuze

10,000 Birds

Mkuze Game Reserve is in the Eastern part of South Africa, about 5 hours away from Johannesburg, and one of the best places I have ever been to for bird photography. Cattle Egrets using public transport. African Pygmy Kingfisher. Brown-hooded Kingfisher.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. But man cannot live on bread alone, and the homesick settlers wanted more than just game. To Victorian eyes the fauna and flora of New Zealand was strange, both in appearance and in its apparent paucity.