10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

What happens when you put a naturalist in a kayak, adrift in Africa? I have read canoeing articles from Africa and knew that the Nile Crocodile ( Crocodilus niloticus ) pays no attention to the boat and, in theory, as long as I’m inside I’m safe. Cattle Egret 16. There are no crocs around here,’ said a smiling bartender.

Botswana 182

Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2015

Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999. Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone, Botswana. The next one I can remember, going chronologically, was my first sunbird ever – the White-bellied Sunbird in the bush in front of our lodge, opposite the Botswana University.

Africa 205

Africa Botswana Birds Europe 205

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Hence, I was quite surprised with a brave, almost exciting paper by Brown, Forbes and Symes: “Recent history of the Egyptian Vulture in Southern Africa” (Vulture News, 2000). Conservation Africa Balkans Egyptian Vulture vultures' However, these birds used to live in my country and I still wanted to see them closer to home.

Sudan 220

Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 220

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. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. 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.

Botswana 162

Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

Ostritch ( Struthio camelus ); Wakkerstroom, South Africa, 22 February. White-faced Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna viduata ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January. White-backed Duck ( Thalassornis leuconotus ); Wakkerstroom, South Africa, 22 February. Knob-billed Duck, or Comb Duck ( Sarkidiornis melanotos ); Chobe NP, Botswana, 2 January.

2015 176

2015 South Africa Botswana Singapore 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Pafuri lies in the northernmost part of the Kruger National Park and is described as “some of the most potentially productive birding territory in South Africa” on the SANParks website. It is the heaviest among the rollers in Africa. ” (HBW). ” (HBW).

Elephants 147

Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Duncan has been in Africa, sweeping all before him like a brush fire. Through Botswana during the first week of September, then into Ethiopia with a late flourish, he has carried the list to 2191 as at September 30t h. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. South Africa. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa.

2016 154

2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154