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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

Call me old fashioned if you like, but I rather like many of these old names, as they put a bit of colour and interest into birding, especially if you bother to investigate who exactly the birds are named after. Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal. Other quality birds seen in the park that morning included the endemic Wattled Ibis, Banded Snake Eagle , migrant Pallid Harriers, Nubian Woodpecker and Brown Babbler.

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