Migrant bird population declines, an African perspective

ByRichard Nissen Reading Time: 1 minute

http://safari-ecology.blogspot.fr/2012/03/migrant-bird-population-declines.html

This web site gives us some real insight into the migratory habits of birds in Africa.  Please follow the links too.  We are fascinated in Wheatears as they like the Bar-tailed Godwit they breed in the Arctic and yet make a remarkable straight great circle flight alone to their wintering grounds in Africa.

It is wonderful to have the other side of the story as we spend so much time
from a European perspective.

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