It is estimated that 4-5,000 million birds migrate to Africa each year to avoid the northern winter. Most of the taxidermy birds are on display in a designated room at the Nairobi National Museum on Museum Hill. Some of the birds arrive in Kenya in August, although the majority arrive from September to December, and will return home in spring, around April, to take advantage of the increased insect populations, and abundance of breeding grounds.
Some
migratory birds cover up to 20,000 kilometres, return journey. Some are night
migrating songbirds attracted by the game-viewing lights of the safari lodges
under moonlight. They also avoid predation at night.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different
in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament
(2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a
Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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