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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe is last in the alphabetical atlas of countries of the world. But eastern Zimbabwe is an almost mythical place and a highly productive birding destination. But eastern Zimbabwe is an almost mythical place and a highly productive birding destination. I have had the privilege of birding Zimbabwe on a handful of occasions.

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Situation Critical for Zimbabwe Wildlife

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In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Dramatic Elephant Rescue

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This elephant was saved from drowning in a manmade structure in a Zimbabwe national park by a team that is using drones to deter poaching. The rescue was made by the Air Shepherd team in Zimbabwe’s vast Hwange National Park.

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Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia set to permit almost 1,000 trophy hunting licences for critically endangered African elephants.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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He traveled to the United Kingdom, the Rhondda Valley in Wales, Zimbabwe, Chilean Patagonia, and Dubai. But, it is the sections about Lendrum that crackle with the tension of truth that is weirder than fiction. And yet, it doesn’t quite seem to be enough.

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Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, 5th edition

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And so, back to political entities, this field guide covers Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , the southern half of Mozambique (south of the Zambezi River), South Africa , Lesotho and Eswatini ( Swaziland ). Yet, unless you live in the region, you are likely to have a vague idea where the Zambezi flows and no idea where Kunene is.

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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

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As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. Letaba is a largish rest camp in the North central part of the park. It is near a river, attracting some birds that like to eat wet food.

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I Remember Elephants

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Africa), Hwange (Zimbabwe) and, recently, in Chobe national park in Botswana (the one that was considered so safe that the Clintons have visited it as a presidential couple)! Of those range states, opposed were South Africa, Namibia and, not surprisingly, Zimbabwe. EU voted as a block of 28 votes “against”.

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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

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It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths. The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Geneva voted in favour of China becoming a licensed importer.

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

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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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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of 2012?

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Hope you see skies as beautiful as this one over Zimbabwe shot by Adam Riley a. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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What is a Palm-thrush?

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They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya). These Collared Palm-thrushes were photographed in the Cresta Mowana Lodge in Kasane, pretty much the only place you’ll see the species in Botswana (according to one of the guidebooks I read).

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Swallows. Swallowed

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So, when they set out to study of the migration and habitat use of these animals in a South African lake in the Mapungubwe National Park, near the border with Botswana and Zimbabwe, they were not necessarily looking for fish flying out of the water. That fish jump out of the water to take prey from the air is not at all new.

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Review: Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa

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In particular the GPS function didn’t seem to work in Botswana and Zimbabwe (I am, I have to confess, guessing there was a GPS function as it seemed to work in South Africa in areas with no signal. Quite apart from eliminating vagrants (or possible ones), I found it worked better in some locations that others. I may be mistaken).

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Shadows of Africa

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Historical poaching (this population was restocked from Zimbabwe) has clearly left its mark on the gene pool. The crossing gives me a photo opportunity… focusing, shooting, shooting, shooting – I am losing the sense of reality! The biggest bulls of Madikwe reach only 3.5 tons, while the biggest Kruger bulls weight 4 to 6 tons.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. Lions are most easily found in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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Birding Botswana’s Borders

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But I have visited Guatemala, Lesotho and Zimbabwe to actually visit them and count them, even though I spent less time in them than I did Zurich. I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.

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South Africa’s endemic birds

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The Sugarbirds are another family endemic to Southern Africa, again with two species; Cape Sugarbird (being a true endemic to the southwestern Cape) and Gurney’s Sugarbird (occurring at scattered sites through eastern South Africa with a small isolated population in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe.)

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Duncan’s 2015 List

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Bateleur ( Terathopius ecaudatus ); Botswana/Zimbabwe Border, Zimbabwe, 3 January. Schalow’s Turaco ( Tauraco schalowi ); Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 3 January. Lilac-breasted Roller ( Coracias caudatus ); Zambezi NP, Zimbabwe, 3 January. Hooded Vulture ( Necrosyrtes monachus ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January.

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Africa’s remarkable long tailed birds

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Photo taken by Adam Riley in Zimbabwe. The scarcer Gurney’s Sugarbird has a wider range through the mountains of eastern South Africa and Zimbabwe, and is reliably found on Sani Pass. The whydahs do not build their own nests but parasitize those of waxbills and other small seedeaters. Sugarbirds. Mousebirds.

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