10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
Before it joins waters with the Matabele’s iliMphopho, the river of rapid rising and falling, known to the rest of the world as the ‘great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo’ of Rudyard Kipling’s writings, the Ngotwane River marks the boundary line between Botswana and South Africa. Andrew’s laconic answer was ‘No, I don’t think so.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
But there is one place in Africa where Wattled Cranes still gather in fair numbers – the Okavango Delta of Botswana. They are not bound to wetlands the entire year and large groups of birds will disperse to dry grassland and savanna outside of the breeding season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-lZzV0Wck v=w8-lZzV0Wck a.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2013
Africa’s pelicans can be a bit confusing on the identification front as Great White does show an overall pink blush in its plumage during breeding season whereas the pinkest part of Pink-backed Pelican is its lower back, which is only seen in flight! Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. Photo by Adam Riley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2021
When I moved to Botswana, to learn my birds I got myself the thickest local field guide. Within a total of 301 tightly-packed but well organised plates, illustrated are all male breeding plumages, as well as females – where significantly different. The additional illustrators were Gustavo Carrizo, Aldo A. Rodriguez Mata.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Males of this species are more brightly colored in their non-breeding winter plumage. Blue Cranes are almost entirely restricted to South Africa, with an isolated (but dwindling) population in Namibia’s Etosha National Park and a few pairs in Botswana. A dancing Blue Crane , South Africa’s national bird.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2014
Several years passed on and my home was now under the southern sky, on the outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana, not far from the Ngotwane River. Since they build their delicate nests on these leaves, I was already hoping that they will breed right there, but later I’ve found them only in small numbers.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
At the time I was the Secretary of the Botswana Bird Club, and Claire was one of recipients of the club’s ornithological journal The Babbler. …hundreds of working man and boys would take advantage of the free hour at dinner time to visit the bridges and embankments, and give the scraps left from their meal to the birds.”
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