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Birdwatching the Okavango Delta

10,000 Birds

While we look for animal tracks, you’ll see so much else as we go. Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail! Imagine waking in your tent at dawn, woken by the calls of Red-billed Spurfowl and Fork-tailed Drongos, a light breakfast then out into the bush.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. Turns out, from what I could find, not particularly ceremonious. We could do it! Then the 80s happened.