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What is a Palm-thrush?

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As noted in their entry the Handbook of the Birds of the World, they are unusual in their close association with palms (hence the name) and in building mud nests (in palms or human buildings). They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya).

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Review: Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa

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How many copies of Sasol does one human need? In particular the GPS function didn’t seem to work in Botswana and Zimbabwe (I am, I have to confess, guessing there was a GPS function as it seemed to work in South Africa in areas with no signal. With one exception the cisticolas I recorded were picked out by call or a human guide.

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