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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

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We had been driving through Eswatini (Swaziland) for a few hours during the day, coming from Ndumo. These hornbills have the well-tried breeding strategy of enclosing the female in a tree hole. I usually do not write much about traveling to and from birding places but my friend and I arrived in Malelane in the afternoon.

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South Africa’s endemic birds

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Males of this species are more brightly colored in their non-breeding winter plumage. In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample! A dancing Blue Crane , South Africa’s national bird.