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Tanzania – Africa at its best

10,000 Birds

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Moorcroft Manor, a Great Place to Lay a Birding Head Down

10,000 Birds

It was perhaps unsurprising that the lake at the end of the garden attracted the lion’s share of the birds. The tall flower studded grasses to the north were a mess of seed-eaters from the Red-billed Quellea to the astonishing Long-tailed Widowbird , a sparrow-sized bird with a massive tail twice as long as its body.

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