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The return of the Old Man

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The individual I am pictured holding ( above ) was a friendly bird that (rather like a dog) seemed happy to be handled. Shooting remains a major threat to this population, for the Italians are still passionately keen on hunting. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience.

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The Crocodile Safari (Botswana)

10,000 Birds

nubicoides ) using them as a high viewpoint to hunt dragonflies. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. Published in the Canoeist, UK, July 2003. Cattle Egret 16. South of the dam wall there was a shallow bay where branches of the flooded acacias reached toward the sky.

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