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. Vervet Monkey c. Cover: 20 years younger version of me.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Africa), Hwange (Zimbabwe) and, recently, in Chobe national park in Botswana (the one that was considered so safe that the Clintons have visited it as a presidential couple)! Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
You may have read my recent piece on Birding the Okavango Delta in Botswana here on 10,000 Birds. The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. If you did you may have gathered that I have a love affair with that wonderful place. However, I have another ongoing love affair, with India.
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. The Kozara route (7.8mi, top) and the Veliko Ratno Island circumnavigation route (4.3mi, left; source: Google Earth ).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2013
They follow troops of monkeys through the forests, swooping down to snatch insects that the primates flush from the leaves. Image from Botswana by Adam Riley. The amazingly long tailed White-crowned Hornbill is a west and central African rainforest species that emits a most frightful crescendo call, reminiscent of a hyena in full cry.
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