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Birding St Lucia, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Lucia estuary look like the negative of photo of camels in sand dunes. Though I actually quite like zebras. If you take a close look at these Crested Guineafowls , particularly their head, you will have to agree that they have great potential as cartoon birds. For some reason, these Greater Flamingoes in the St.

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Birding the Dampier Downs Road

10,000 Birds

Crested Pigeons and Diamond Doves flew across the track in search of water and there were also Zebra Finch and Long-tailed Finch. Along the track we noticed a variety of prints including birds, marsupials and more recently wild camels. There have been Crimson Chats on the track as well, but they appear to have dispersed now.

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Wolfe Creek Crater birding

10,000 Birds

We were surprised to observe Zebra Finch , because there did not appear to be any water, but they could have been accessing water on the station and coming to the crater for food. Other species of plant that were flowering were the Mulla mulla , Camel bush , a native Hop bush and a variety of salt-bushes. Camel bush.

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