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Pink in Africa

10,000 Birds

Puffbacks belong to the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae and this group are called puffbacks due to several of the species forming a habit of puffing out their fluffy white back feathers during display. This high elevation east African species is now known as Dusky Turtle-Dove. Pink-breasted or Dusky Turtle-Dove by Adam Riley.

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