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Birding Botswana’s Borders

10,000 Birds

Well-travelled birders will recognise Cattle Egrets following the steps of hippo or African Buffalo , and Black-crowned Night Herons , but more African species occur in the form of the massive Goliath Heron , the smaller Squacco Heron , and the highly distinctive Black Egret , famous for creating a canopy with its wings to hunt small fish.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

10,000 Birds

Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver – Bubalornis niger. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Rufous-browed Peppershrike – Cyclarhis gujanensis. Jardines El Rey De Cocora. 22 Oct 2019. Jardines El Rey De Cocora.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Tirat Zvi fish ponds. White-bellied Sea-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucogaster. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Pallas’s Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucoryphus. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. West Kirby.

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