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Pink in Africa

10,000 Birds

This species is a southern African endemic, restricted to, but fortunately not uncommon, in dry woodland and sand forest habitats of northern Zululand, Swaziland, scattered pockets of north-eastern South Africa and southern Mozambique. This high elevation east African species is now known as Dusky Turtle-Dove. Pink-breasted Dove.

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Duncan’s 2015 List

10,000 Birds

Cape Turtle Dove ( Streptopelia capicola ); Caprivi Strip, Namibia, 2 January. Spotted Dove, or Spotted Turtle-dove, ( Streptopelia chinensis ); Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore, 25 February. Square-tailed Nightjar , or Mozambique Nightjar ( Caprimulgus fossii ); Mkuze GR, South Africa, 31 January. APODIDAE (SWIFTS).

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