10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

In Zimbabwe, Buluwezi Murambiwa provides guiding services to guests at the Seldomseeen Cottages in Bvumba, in the border region with Mozambique. You would think a featureless sea provides no clues for direction or distance and you would be correct until a community guide proves you wrong. They are that good. Is there a perfect guide?

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Mozambique Zimbabwe Birds Mammals 244

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya). These Collared Palm-thrushes were photographed in the Cresta Mowana Lodge in Kasane, pretty much the only place you’ll see the species in Botswana (according to one of the guidebooks I read).

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Mozambique Zambia Zimbabwe Namibia 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

Historical poaching (this population was restocked from Zimbabwe) has clearly left its mark on the gene pool. The crossing gives me a photo opportunity… focusing, shooting, shooting, shooting – I am losing the sense of reality! The biggest bulls of Madikwe reach only 3.5 tons, while the biggest Kruger bulls weight 4 to 6 tons.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 217

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. Lions are most easily found in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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Rhinoceros Buffalo Leopards Elephants 230

Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths. The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Geneva voted in favour of China becoming a licensed importer.

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Elephants China Zimbabwe Namibia 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As a symbol on all kinds of flags (Mexico, Montenegro, Moldava), and for all sorts of countries (Zambia, Zimbabwe), political parties and organizations (the National Rifle Association), governmental agencies, rock bands, and other things, the Bald Eagle is ubiquitous. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine.

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Bald Eagle Montenegro Zambia Zimbabwe 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The Sugarbirds are another family endemic to Southern Africa, again with two species; Cape Sugarbird (being a true endemic to the southwestern Cape) and Gurney’s Sugarbird (occurring at scattered sites through eastern South Africa with a small isolated population in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe.)

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South Africa Lesotho Swaziland Africa 249

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. I had the amazing opportunity to visit one last year as the guest of a friend of mine who is a shareholder (not what you know but who!).

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Zimbabwe Botswana South Africa Endangered Species 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. Letaba is a largish rest camp in the North central part of the park. It is near a river, attracting some birds that like to eat wet food.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Birds 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

But I have visited Guatemala, Lesotho and Zimbabwe to actually visit them and count them, even though I spent less time in them than I did Zurich. I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.

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Botswana Lesotho Elephants Bald Eagle 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

Bateleur ( Terathopius ecaudatus ); Botswana/Zimbabwe Border, Zimbabwe, 3 January. Schalow’s Turaco ( Tauraco schalowi ); Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 3 January. Lilac-breasted Roller ( Coracias caudatus ); Zambezi NP, Zimbabwe, 3 January. Hooded Vulture ( Necrosyrtes monachus ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January.

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2015 South Africa Botswana Singapore 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

Photo taken by Adam Riley in Zimbabwe. The scarcer Gurney’s Sugarbird has a wider range through the mountains of eastern South Africa and Zimbabwe, and is reliably found on Sani Pass. The whydahs do not build their own nests but parasitize those of waxbills and other small seedeaters. Sugarbirds. Mousebirds.

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Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

He traveled to the United Kingdom, the Rhondda Valley in Wales, Zimbabwe, Chilean Patagonia, and Dubai. But, it is the sections about Lendrum that crackle with the tension of truth that is weirder than fiction. And yet, it doesn’t quite seem to be enough.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Central African Republic Guyana 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And so, back to political entities, this field guide covers Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , the southern half of Mozambique (south of the Zambezi River), South Africa , Lesotho and Eswatini ( Swaziland ). Yet, unless you live in the region, you are likely to have a vague idea where the Zambezi flows and no idea where Kunene is.

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Africa South Africa Swaziland Lesotho 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

And then I realized: he had waded through the river… On another occasion I found myself in the Chimanimani Mountains on the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe. There were still no tracks to be seen (I double-checked). My Mozambique project concerned Lake Chicamba Real – a big reservoir behind a dam in the River Revué.

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Mozambique Ghana Namibia Birds 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

In particular the GPS function didn’t seem to work in Botswana and Zimbabwe (I am, I have to confess, guessing there was a GPS function as it seemed to work in South Africa in areas with no signal. Quite apart from eliminating vagrants (or possible ones), I found it worked better in some locations that others. I may be mistaken).

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Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 156