10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I bring this up because birding the Chobe River in northern Botswana gave me the interesting opportunity to bird a country I technically wasn’t in. 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. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

You probably have to go to a resturant in Botswana or South Africa to find Tigerfish on the menu. In fact, Tigerfishing is sometimes done with a dry fly, in Botswana. I’ve only seen Tigerfish (Alestidae, genus Hydrocynus , usually Hydrocynus goliath ) in two contexts, but I’ve seen a lot of them. One is on the plate, as dinner.

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South Africa Botswana Africa Fish 214

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 100

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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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 192

Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 13, 2020

submitted by /u/trot-trot [link] [comments].

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Botswana Elephants Animal 40

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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You may have read my recent piece on Birding the Okavango Delta in Botswana here on 10,000 Birds. 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. If you have never thought of India as a birding destination, I’d urge you to give it a good look.

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India Wildlife Tigers Eagles 197

Reddit Animals

MAY 7, 2021

submitted by /u/my_mum_is_stunning44 [link] [comments].

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Namibia Zimbabwe Botswana Hunting 98

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2015

I was told by some researchers that in Botswana trackers watch for this species when looking for Painted Wolves (or African Wild Dogs) as they follow packs to snatch up prey and scraps. It is now treated as its own species, confined to Africa and the tip of Arabia (Black Kites also migrate here from Europe and Asia).

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South Africa Africa Botswana Wolves 160

Critter News

JULY 26, 2012

King Juan Carlos may be the King of Spain, but he is no longer the honorary president of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Spain due to his hunting and killing of elephants in Botswana, Treehugger reports. From EcoRazzi.

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Elephants Hunting Spain Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Azure skies over the Okavango Delta of Botswana (Ever seen a Pel’s Fishing Owl ? Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! James Currie has… ) a.

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Botswana 2012 Birds Fish 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

We are currently filming in Botswana. have basically focused our filming efforts on three regions of northern Botswana: The Okavango Delta, The Chobe and the Makgadigadi Pans. have basically focused our filming efforts on three regions of northern Botswana: The Okavango Delta, The Chobe and the Makgadigadi Pans.

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Botswana Zebras Lions Elephants 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

At the time, I was an active volunteer in an organisation soon to become the BirdLife Botswana and have noticed that Brown, Forbes and Symes quoted only two out of five Botswana observations accepted by the Rarities Committee, so I wrote to the Vulture News editor, suggesting that I write a short note on all five observations.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 234

Critter News

APRIL 20, 2012

King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt. From the Wildlife Extra News. April 2012.

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Spain Elephants Hunting Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Boy, Botswana is beautiful! Share your plans in the comments below. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Enjoy more gorgeous pics by Adrian Binns in James’s trip report (photo by Adrian Binns ) a.

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Botswana 2012 United States Birds 164

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

The fun starts tonight with a show called “Swamp of the Baboons&# , which takes a look at the complex social network of baboons in Botswana. Among the forested islands and wildlife-rich floodplains of Botswana lies the highest concentration of baboons in Africa.

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Botswana 2009 Suffering Africa 100

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

First up, you can enter to win a trip to Botswana for a 12 day private safari! A new National Geographic movie, The Last Lions, opened this past weekend in Washington, DC. The movie is about saving lions, and they are doing some really fun promotions to help spread the movie around the country. Have an iPhone or iPad?

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Lions DC Botswana Washington 100

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. Is its habitat still there? No one has seen it after the initial discovery! The habitat was there, the birds were there and Claire found them.

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Angola United Kingdom Mozambique Botswana 193

Critter News

APRIL 23, 2012

Adding Insult To Injury Spaniards can't decide which would be worse — whether their king might have spent public money on his jaunt to Botswana last week, or whether it was paid for by an Arab businessman courting favor, as some reports say. Either way, there are calls for the king's abdication.

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Elephants Hunting Botswana Spain 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

18 years ago I moved to Botswana where that gloriously bright sunshine makes observing them easier, while shorebirds themselves ease things further by mostly sporting their wintering plumage. If I were to give a speech at the shorebirds conference, those would have been my opening words. Anything else would be a lie.

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Botswana 2017 Groups Europe 123

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In both India and Botswana, I was at the very edge of the tropics (under the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, respectively), but in dry semi-desert zones, never deep in the true, humid tropics.

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Costa Rica Birds India Botswana 220

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

My eyes will be returning to the lonely acacia next to a waterhole, trying to spot a large shadow in the sunset.

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Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 174

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

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. Award-winning filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert set out 30 years ago on a quest to get close to big cats.

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Cats Lions Leopards Botswana 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

And, a dozen years later, I still remember his name: Steven Makala , working for the Limpopo River Lodge in the Tuli Block province of Botswana. He had no binoculars and yet, was easily picking up and correctly identifying birds around us. What makes a good bird guide? Knowing birds and where to find them is only the first step.

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Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

This 15,000 sq mi Kalahari desert reserve straddles the South African and Botswana border regions and was created when two national parks were merged – these being South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park.

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Leopards Cats Namibia Killing 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

White-faced Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna viduata ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January. Knob-billed Duck, or Comb Duck ( Sarkidiornis melanotos ); Chobe NP, Botswana, 2 January. Egyptian Goose ( Alopochen aegyptiaca ); Chobe NP, Botswana, 1 January. Egyptian Goose ( Alopochen aegyptiaca ); Chobe NP, Botswana, 1 January.

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2015 South Africa Botswana Singapore 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

We break for… a beautiful Malabar Whistling Thrush (another lifer), only to discover a busy bird party: Asian Paradise-flycatcher (my first white morph male and the second paradise-flycatcher in my life list – I have observed an African one in Botswana before), Black-hooded Oriole , White-browed Fantail , Oriental White-eye , Red-breasted Flycatcher (..)

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India Owls Tigers Cows 185

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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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 211

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 ).

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 244

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Another southern African endemic, this species ranges widely across the dry grasslands of central South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. Even less pink is the Pink-billed Lark although it is still well named as it sports a prominent pink bill. Pink-billed Lark by Andrew Stainthorpe/Rockjumper Birding Tours.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

If tourists are too dim to tell Sierra Leone from Botswana or Tanzania, do we really want to rely on them to save Africa’s species? I was in Africa earlier this year and the universal message I got was that bookings were down down DOWN because of ebola. Ebola, a disease ravaging the other side of the continent.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

We break for… a beautiful Malabar Whistling Thrush (another lifer), only to discover a busy bird party: Asian Paradise-flycatcher (my first white morph male and the second paradise-flycatcher in my life list – I have observed an African one in Botswana before), Black-hooded Oriole , White-browed Fantail , Oriental White-eyes , Red-breasted (..)

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India Owls Tigers Endangered Species 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

Finca Luna Nueva Lodge. Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa. Macaw Lodge. Birding Experiences. InkaNatura Travel. Bird Uganda Safaris. Birding Expeditions. Capture Africa Safaris. Puembo Birding Garden. Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge and Spa. Jaguarundi Travel. Aruacana Lodge. Cave Creek Ranch.

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Costa Rica Uganda Greece Ghana 264

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

Linfield: Probably my favorite location was the Okavango Delta in Botswana for two reasons really. As soon as you get into that situation, I think you’re breaking the first rule of wildlife film making, which is to record and never interfere in any way with the animals at all.

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Polar Bears Bears Walruses Norway 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

Secretarybirds seem more crane than raptor as their four-foot frames stride across the open plains of places like the Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana. This part of Botswana – the magnificent Makgadikgadi Pans – is a truly unforgettable birding location. So long that they have to crouch to drink or pick up food.

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Botswana Eagles Porcupines Hunting 231