10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

Mum, Dad, I’m sorry I described my childhood as feral. Across the Chobe River from Kasane, overlooking the Caprivi Strip of Namibia. As for the rest of you, poking fun at your pseudowarblers is too much fun for me to stop. This fledgeling was trapped in the lobby, but we were able to guide it back outside.

Mozambique

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

In this treaty, the Germans ceded control over some of their colonial territories in East Africa to the British in return for the Caprivi Strip (now Namibia) and, surprise, the island of Heligoland. Spending the winter far out at sea in the Arctic when you are a bird barely larger than a feral pigeon?

Germany

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

African Pygmy-goose ( Nettapus auritus ); Caprivi Strip, Namibia, 1 January. Long-tailed Cormorant, or Reed Cormorant ( Microcarbo africanus ); Caprivi Strip, Namibia, 2 January. African Darter ( Anhinga rufa ); Caprivi Strip, Namibia, 2 January. Hamerkop ( Scopus umbretta ); Caprivi Strip, Namibia, 1 January.

2015

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2017

A few years back, I birded northern Greece with a couple from Namibia. He has seen them before in Cape Town, but those were introduced and feral birds, while in the Balkans they are indigenous and – countable! Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm….

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