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Long-tailed Cuckoo

The Long-tailed Cuckoo is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of Yellowheads, Whiteheads and Brown Creepers. The eggs hatch before those of the host do so and the young chicks eject the eggs of the host. Long-tail Cuckoo chicks are able to mimic the calls of their host's chicks.

The Long-tailed Cuckoo is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more...

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10,000 Birds | South Africa’s endemic birds

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My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (843 species recorded to date) it doesn't compete with tropical countries to the north or on other continents (especially South America), South Africa makes up for this in several ways:

o the highest number of endemics on the continent: 19 true endemics, 2 breeding endemics, 1 winter...

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Pin-tailed Whydahs, Vidua macroura - Beauty Of Birds

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The Pin-tailed Whydah, Vidua macroura, is a small resident songbird that occurs in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert; where it lives in light and densely wooded forests with Mopane trees; savanna grasslands where it breeds and feeds; and African bushveld.

The Pin-tailed Whydah is known in Afrikaans as Koningrooibekkie. They are also called "Widow Birds" in reference to the...

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