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Pitta Pilgrimage in BirdLife South Africa November 2025

  • Writer: Harriet Nimmo
    Harriet Nimmo
  • 4 days ago
  • 1 min read

"Look there – on that branch, behind those green leaves!’ Crouching in

thick forest, with sweat dripping, heart pounding and eyes straining, I frantically searched with my binoculars, trying to work out which branch, which green leaves – indeed, which darned tree? I was close to panicking as we had come so far, and yet I just couldn’t see where our guide was pointing.


And then I heard it: ‘pirrup’."


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