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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

10,000 Birds

Strangely, the Latin name of the Hair-crested Drongo is Dicrurus hottentottus – Hottentot is a name previously given to the Khoikhoi, a nomad pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa, far away from where this drongo lives. I wish there was a way to give some guns to Hen Harriers so that they could shoot back.

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