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How to Bird Murchison Falls

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Murchison Falls NP earns all sorts of superlative accolades: most powerful waterfall in the world, top 5 game park in Africa, and some of the most gorgeous sunrises and sunsets you’ve ever seen. What makes this destination so magnificent? Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!!

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Namibia’s 15 key birds

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The League of Nations thereafter mandated this huge block of land to South Africa to administer and autonomy was only granted after the protracted Namibian War of Independence that was fought between the South African defense force and Namibian freedom fighters based in Angola, Zambia and other neighboring countries.

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The Bee-eaters of Africa

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These beaters usually take the form of grazing herds of game and domestic animals, and large flocks of carmine bee-eaters may gather overhead. Little Bee-eaters are commonly found in all of Africa’s famous big game parks and have even taken to residing in golf courses, where they nest in holes excavated in the bunkers.

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Africa’s endangered species

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A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Image by Adam Riley Ludwig’s Bustard This attractive dry country bustard ranges across western South Africa, Namibia and just into southern Angola. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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Lango Camp is situated along the mineral-rich baï in the heart of the park, visited by Forest Buffalo, Forest, Elephant, Sitatunga and Bongo antelopes, Allen’s Swamp Monkey, large flocks of African Grey Parrots … Game viewing on foot or by motorboat. Game viewing on foot, by 4×4 or by motorboat.

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Africa’s Barbets

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White-chested Tinkerbird is one of Africa’s avian mysteries, known only from a single specimen collected in 1964 at Mayau in north-west Zambia, close to the borders of Angola and the DRC. White-headed can be found in huge fig trees in woodlands of east and central Africa with a tiny isolated population in Angola.

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