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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

This image shows Sani Pass, a rough 4×4 track leading into the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected.