A globe-trotting schoolgirl from Somerset has become the youngest birdwatcher in the world to spot an impressive 4,000 different species of bird.
Dedicated
Mya-Rose Craig, 13, has travelled the world with her parents spotting,
recording and ticking off thousands of species of birds.
The
teenage twitcher made her 4,000th spot - a red-throated tit - at Swara Plains,
Kenya, during a summer trip to Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya.
Mya,
who lives in Compton Martin, Somerset, has been bird watching with her family
since she was just a few months old.
At
her family's side, she has travelled the length and breadth of Britain finding
and spotting hundreds of different birds.
When
she was four years old her mother, Helena Craig, decided that she was old
enough to start counting birds on her own.
Since
then she has travelled to Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Egypt, Malaysia,
Majorca and Australia looking for birds.
Proud
mum, Helena, said: "On her first day in Kenya, she saw her 4,000th bird
species in the world, the beautiful Red-throated tit, at Swara Plains, just
south of Nairobi.
"She
is the youngest person to have seen 4,000 birds in the world.
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