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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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The history of Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa is a slightly unusual one. It is a good place for South African birders, as several species are found here and nowhere else in South Africa, and it holds a small number of endemics that it shares with the Mozambique lowlands. But despite this, I did see birds.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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According to the Birds of the Western Palearctic , they will attack Ravens and Egyptian and Griffon Vultures if they stray too close to their nest sites, while ignoring buzzards harriers and kites. I have fond memories of watching flocks feeding on the open veld in South Africa, where thousands spend the winter.

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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

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Keith Barnes has birded Africa intensively for 30 years and has led tours on the continent for the last 15 years, after creating the company Tropical Birding. Among others, he edited The Important Bird Areas of South Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

According to the words of her master Rob Hall, the holder of Cango Wildlife Ranch in South Africa, her maternal skills were observed since Lisha’s first days in conservation. In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care. Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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