BIRDS
Jul 30, 2021
3 minutes
BY FAANSIE PEACOCK
LEND ME YOUR EARS
In the previous issue, you found me scratching mosquito bites and staring desperately into the canopy of a Mozambican forest. And then almost coming to blows with a birding buddy because he’d glimpsed a rare cuckoo while I could tick only 70 different species of leaves.
This time, I’m on my knees in front of a bush in Botswana’s Chobe National Park. My quarry is a thrush nightingale.
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