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The Bee-eaters of Africa

10,000 Birds

After breeding they also disperse over the rainforests and savannas of West and Central Africa, where they hunt for aerial insects. It’s a lovely species of moist woodland, and easily found in Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve and Malawi’s Liwonde National Park.

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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

The next isolated populations are several thousand miles northwards in Malawi, northern Mozambique and the Rondo Plateau in southern Tanzania. In South Africa Green Barbet occurs only in Ngoye Forest, a tiny forest patch in Zululand, and this form is often split off as Woodward’s Barbet. Image from Kakamega Forest, Kenya.

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