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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

10,000 Birds

We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. Typically these birds hunt at night and are very shy. We crossed a small bridge in the landrover and that’s when I saw it.

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Birding in a Hellmouth

10,000 Birds

The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. I have, for the most part, been able to avoid caves since that experience. First off as we drove in was the Crested Serpent-eagle I’ve shown you before. A Bat Hawk hunting bats.

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