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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

We had been driving through Eswatini (Swaziland) for a few hours during the day, coming from Ndumo. 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. but later switched to forestry (?).

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10,000 Birds

This ruled out some excellent species like Cape Eagle Owl, Violet Wood-hoopoe, African Finfoot and Half-collared Kingfisher and I was still left with 36 species. This was tough because this excluded species that occur in two countries within South Africa’s geographical area, Lesotho and Swaziland.