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Wycliffe Onyango Indeche uses a trap to get ants which he uses to feed his chickens and quills at Muyafwa village in Butere Sub-county on October 31, 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

We found Wycliffe Onyango Indeche, a quail hunter, carefully planting traps in a bush, a few metres from his homestead at Muyafwa A village in Butere Sub-county.

Mr Onyango's target is to catch as many quails as he can, so as to sell them to the locals who cherish the bird's meat.

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