MARK OLIVAREZ
Joined August 2021
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The 'nest custodians' protecting a toddler-sized bird
it was a dusty afternoon at the end of a long dry season, and Zimbabwean subsistence farmer Sofaya Ndlovu was sitting in the sun outside his home. Fifty metres away, between the clean-swept earth of his homestead and a small koppie (a hill in a flat area) of granite boulders, a ragged black bird with a puckered red face, long eyelashes and a voluptuous red wattle strutted over tufts of grass.
By MARK OLIVAREZ3 years ago in Earth