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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. This news made our crew cautiously optimistic as it meant that the local guides probably had a pair’s whereabouts staked out.

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