Botswana Family Species 
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
There are few families of birds where despite a cosmopolitan distribution I’m always so pleased to see any species of the family. So imagine my delight to seeing a pair of African Scops-owls on the side of the road on a recent trip to Botswana. Who doesn’t love a good owl?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Family accounts for all 142 bird families recorded from the region. Species accounts for all 2,792 bird species. Since I used to live in and know Botswana, let’s see what the guide says on that country in one and a half pages. The next one is as exciting as the country accounts – the species accounts.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2021
When I moved to Botswana, to learn my birds I got myself the thickest local field guide. But when I felt familiar with perhaps half of the species around my town, I started to feel that my field guide is now too bulky and too hefty to carry, and that was the era before smartphones and phone apps. Subspecies are not included.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
True geese belong to the tribe or sub-family Anserini within the larger family Anatidae that encompasses ducks, geese and swans. And the Magpie Geese of the same country are believed to be neither ducks nor geese nor swans and are now placed within their own family Anseranatidae.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
The reserve, in the eastern corner of Botswana near Zimbabwe and South Africa, isn’t open to the public in general, so I figured I’d share a few images here by way of showing off. Red-crested Korhaans are attractive members of the bustard family. As well as birds, the reserve holds endangered species like African Wild Dogs.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. I could immediately tell them it was an Egyptian Goose – an invasive species in Germany but not at Kruger. ” (HBW).
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