10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

These Hadada Ibis were right in the garden of the place where we stayed. While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. You can tell from the rufous throat spot, and from the way she critically looks at her male partner who is trying to explain why he came home late last night.

South Africa 147

South Africa Africa Birds 2018 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From the border check station, you can turn to the right and go to the “Highest Bar in Africa” or continue into the unknown. Our local guide, Stuart, informed us that the small flags flying in front of some structures advertised what they sold: white for dairy, yellow for homemade wine, and red for meat.

Lesotho 240

Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 240

Critter News

JUNE 28, 2010

A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. Cameron Selogie, owner of the Il Vinaio restaurant in Mesa, served burgers made with African lion this week as a nod to the tournament in South Africa. I feel I was misled by this."

Phoenix 100

Phoenix Lions Meat South Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Before it joins waters with the Matabele’s iliMphopho, the river of rapid rising and falling, known to the rest of the world as the ‘great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo’ of Rudyard Kipling’s writings, the Ngotwane River marks the boundary line between Botswana and South Africa. How can I not be? Then our kayak froze in the water.

Botswana 207

Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 207

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

.” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. My photo of the cave was bad, sorry.

Humane 164

Humane Animal Africa Ukraine 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. You’d starve.

Humane 165

Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165