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    BIRDS

    Feb 17, 2020 2 minutes
    BY FAANSIE PEACOCK

    THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WRYNECK

    I was sitting in a sliver of shade somewhere between Philippolis and Springfontein in the Free State. It was about 2.30 pm and so hot that the crows were yawning. A typical Karoo silence rested over the landscape; it was so quiet I imagined I

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