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A high rate of endemics, such as the purple-bearded bee-eater, with green wings and a purple chest, which is found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Birders Flock East 2008
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Now 67 and white-haired instead of purple-bearded, the Glaswegian gob may have given up smoking and drinking but he still has a passion for swearing, alongside ruminations on politics and his ageing body.
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