10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Ndumo Game Reserve lies in the Easternmost part of South Africa, close to the border of Mozambique and Eswatini. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2018
601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
It was founded as a safe place for refugees from the Mozambique Civil War , which ran from 1977 to 1992. It is a good place for South African birders, as several species are found here and nowhere else in South Africa, and it holds a small number of endemics that it shares with the Mozambique lowlands.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2012
Situated slap-bang on the Zim/Mozambique border, this used to be one of the most productive birding sites in the country. And, if you plan to bird the Mozambique side beware of old landmines, souvenirs from the brutal civil wars.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2023
The whole village smells of fish – its raison d’etre. One goat is feeding on fish hanging to dry along the sticks. Between the sea and the village, on now dry tidal flats, gulls and egrets are wandering among the fishing boats lying on their sides and waiting for the tide. There is not a single tree in the entire village.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
A Dominican missionary in Mozambique in the 16th century was astounded to find honeyguides eating the wax from his altar candles! But certain bird species go against the grain here and some even appear to have a better sense of smell than many mammals, humans included. Honeyguides, for example, are strongly attracted to the smell of wax.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2013
The whole village smells of fish – its raison d’etre. One goat is feeding on fish hanging to dry along the sticks. Between the sea and the village, on now dry tidal flats, gulls and egrets are wandering among the fishing boats lying on their sides and waiting for the tide. There is not a single tree in the entire village.
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