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The Crocodile Safari (Botswana)

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Before it joins waters with the Matabele’s iliMphopho, the river of rapid rising and falling, known to the rest of the world as the ‘great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo’ of Rudyard Kipling’s writings, the Ngotwane River marks the boundary line between Botswana and South Africa. Andrew’s laconic answer was ‘No, I don’t think so.

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Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, 5th edition

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And so, back to political entities, this field guide covers Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , the southern half of Mozambique (south of the Zambezi River), South Africa , Lesotho and Eswatini ( Swaziland ). This region is so far from the northern breeding grounds that there are no migratory corridors to show.

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Wattled Cranes

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But there is one place in Africa where Wattled Cranes still gather in fair numbers – the Okavango Delta of Botswana. They are not bound to wetlands the entire year and large groups of birds will disperse to dry grassland and savanna outside of the breeding season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-lZzV0Wck v=w8-lZzV0Wck a.

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. I used to live in Botswana, where there are about 450 bird species in an area a few dozen miles from the capital; then somewhat naively moved back to Serbia with mere 250 species around the capital.

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Collins Birds of the World by Norman Arlott

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When I moved to Botswana, to learn my birds I got myself the thickest local field guide. Within a total of 301 tightly-packed but well organised plates, illustrated are all male breeding plumages, as well as females – where significantly different. The additional illustrators were Gustavo Carrizo, Aldo A. Rodriguez Mata.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. Most definitely so.

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