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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

Due to some misallocation of bird species, I saw the Bateleur Eagle near Malelane, not near Bateleur Camp, where a more professional marketing team would have located the bird. Wahlberg’s Eagle is named after the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg who first started studying chemistry (!) but later switched to forestry (?).

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Starlings and Eagles

10,000 Birds

If we were just birders, or photographers, this would be dreadful behavior, but we were here to watch people engaged in Science. And Science requires Sacrifice. The aim of the game was to band raptors, and specifically to band Golden Eagles. Do I sound facetious? I’m not. To understand, and thus to protect.

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