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Böhm’s Bee-eater Southern grey-headed Sparrow
Little Bee-eater
Red-billed Firefinch
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater African Firefinch
Green Wood Hoopoe Jameson’s Firefinch
Crowned Hornbill Southern Blue Waxbill
Dark-capped Bulbul Bronze Mannikin
Yellow-bellied Greenbul Cut-throat Finch
Bearded Scrub-robin Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Tawny-flanked Prinia Yellow-fronted Canary
Green-backed Camaroptera
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Long-billed Crombec
African Paradise Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Black-backed Puffback
Black-crowned Tchagra

2020 marks the year of the COVID-19 pandemic and tourism throughout Malawi has been
greatly reduced over the course of the last 8 months. It had been a hypothesis that with
fewer tourists, poaching in Lengwe would have increased and the number of animals
counted would therefore be lower this year in comparison to the recent past. The data does
not seem to support this idea. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife staff should
be congratulated for the work they are doing to protect Lengwe’s animal population.

2020 also marks the 54th anniversary of the Lengwe Game Count. We are grateful to all
those who were involved in the planning of the count and to those who participated, thereby
ensuring the continuation of this important tradition.

African Harrier Hawk Little Bee-eater Grey Heron