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Rueppel's korhann

RÃ_ppell's kor

Rufous-naped lark

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Mountain wheatear

Mountain wheate

Pale-winged starling

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Red-billed spurfowl

Red-billed spur

Groundscraper thrush

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Benguela Long-b

African red-eyed bulbul

African red-eye

Green-winged pytilia (M)

Green-winged py

Green-winged pytilia (F)

Green-winged py

Yellow-billed hornbill

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Blacksmith lapwing

Blacksmith lapw

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Red- billed spu

Swallow-tailed bee-eater

Marico flycatcher

Marico flycatch

They really are that colour:)

Crimson-breaste

Chat flycatcher

Chat flycatcher

It took this African grey hornbill about two minutes to finally consume the lunchtime snack

African grey ho

Southern black korhaan

Greater kestrel

Greater kestrel

Southern pale chanting goshawk

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Double-banded courser

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This ostrich is out in pretty extreme sun and has dropped its wings to protect its legs.

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Red-headedfinch (M & F)

Red-headedfinch

Southern pale chanting goshawk

Red-crested korhaan

Red-crested kor

R�ppell's parrots

RÃ_ppell's par

Pririt or Chinspot batis

Pririt or Chins

African fish-eagle

African fish-ea

Lilac-breasted roiller

Black-collared barbet

Go-away bird (Grey lourie)

Go-away bird (G

Burchell's starling

Burchell's star

Bearded woodpecker

Bearded woodpec

Little bee-eater

Little bee-eate

Cape spurfowl (?)

Cape spurfowl (

African sacred ibis

White-browed coucal

White-browed co

Spur-winged goose

Spur-winged goo

Lilac-breasted roller

R�ppell's korhaan

Brown snake-eagle

Brown snake-eag

Cape (?) eagle owl

Red-billed quelea

Red-billed quel

Helmeted guinea fowl

Helmeted guinea

Red billed hrnbill

Red billed hrnb

White-browed sparrow weaver

White-browed sp

White-backed vulture

White-backed vu

Hooded vulture (young)

Dickinson's kestrel

Dickinson's kes

Brubru (Telephone bird!)

Brubru (Telepho

Yellow-billed oxpecker (on gira

Yellow-billed o

Green-winged pytilia

Green-winged py

Southern red-billed hornbill

Southern red-bi

White-browed sparrow weaver

White-browed sp

Red-billed buffalo weaver

Red-billed buff

These beautiful birds are quite common - we only saw one purple roller but I didn't have my camera ready - I finally saw one do a roll, like a fighter go up and over in a circle, as part of a display.

Lilac-breastedr

Saddle-billed stork

Hartlaub's babbler

Hartlaub's babb

Coppery-tailed coucal

We all agreed this wins as "the ugliest bird ever, anywhere"

Little bee-eater

Prehistoric-looking and endangered

Southern ground

Saddle-billed storks

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Saddle-billed stork

Saddle-billed s

RÃ_ppell's parrot on sausage t

The elusive green pigeon :-)

African gree pi

Black-faced waxbill

Black-faced wax

Marico flycatcher

Brown snake-eagle

Marabou stork (sleeping!)

Marabou stork (

Gree wood hoopoes

Gree wood hoopo

African fish-eagle

Brown snake-eagle

Brownsnake-eagl

Cori bustard (feathers on neck

Cori bustard (f

Carmine bee-eater

Carmine bee-eat

African fish eagle 2.

African fish ea

Ayres's hawk-eagle (?)

Ayres's hawk-ea

African hawk-eagle

African hawk-ea

Carmine bee-eater

African hawk-eagle

Carmine bee-eater

Carminebee-eate

Pied kingfisher

Pied kingfisher

Verreaux's eagle-owl (Giant eag

Verreaux's eagl

Grrey=headed bush-shrike

Grrey=headed bu

Swallow-tailed bee-eater

Pied kingfisher hovering

Pied kingfisher

Yellow-billed strok

Yellow-billed s

African spoonbill

African spoonbi

African openbill

African openbil

Grey crowned crane

Grey crowned cr

This grey heron eventually abandoned the fish because it s too big - the crocodile was happy to take it

Grey heron (wit

Yellow-billed stork

Yellow-billed s

Yellow-billed kite

Yellow-billed k

The great egret had no difficulty with this little snack

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African skimmer

African skimmer

Trumpeter hornbill. Its call sounds like a baby crying!

Trumpeter hornb

African yellow white-eye

Dark-capped bulbul

Dark-capped bul

Yellow-bellied greenbul

Black collared barbet

Amethyst sunbird (F)

Amethyst sunbir

No humming birds in Africa but their niche is filled with sunbirds - we didn't see many.

Amethyst sunbir

Jameson's firefinch

Jameson's firef

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White-naped crane

Brown-eared bulbul

White-naped crane

Female Daurian redstart

On the first morning, we were there to see them fly out of the roost on their way to find food.

Inscrutable Ural owl

Black-eared kite manoeuvring looking for fish fed to the cranes

White-tailed eagle swooping in to try and take the fish out of the crane's mouth

Classic pair pose

White-tailed eagle hangs on to fish stolen from the cranes

And flies off to have lunch

Another kite joins the fray

Another Ural owl enjoying the sunshine from its hole

Steller's sea eagle catching lunch (aided by the crew of our boat)
(These shots were harder because of the boat motion and the bird motion and my learning how to use the autofocus to keep the bird in focus...)

Steller's sea eagle calling, on a sunny afternoon

The Steller's sea eagle must have got too close to the white-tailed eagle's fish so the latter grabbed his beak with a claw and flipped him on his back

Fighting-Eagles

Eurasion jay scoping out the food offerings below

This is the female of the pair of Blakiston's fish-owls that live near the inn - Yuroushi Daiichi. They are the biggest owls in the world and are critically endangered. Sun is well up but she remains close. Some snow on ear tufts remains, but the tufts are down so calm.

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Great spotted woodpecker

The male (with one iris deformed - the owner of the inn knows which is the male from the calls) returned in the evening for feeding the little river fish the owner puts out. This is one of an estimated 100 remaining pairs of this species, so we saw 1% of the planet's population!

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Preen, preen, preen - your life may depend on it:D

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Austral
Thrush
Turdus
falcklandii

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Magellanic
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Campephilus
magellanicus

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Campephilus
magellanicus

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Very elegant-looking, as common and widespread as the Canada goose in N America is the Upland
Goose
Chloephaga
picta (this is the male)

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Female Upland
Goose
Chloephaga
picta (almost always seen in pairs, as they bond for life)

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Sometimes you get lucky with your camera! This one was launching to go and attack another lagoon visitor who got a little too close the the nest - luckily she had a cap on or she might have had some seriously scratched scalp!

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Crested Drongo (Dicrurus forficatus)

Madagascar Bulbul (Hypsipetes madagascariensis)

Gray-headed Lovebird (Agapornis canus)

Stripe-throated Jery (Neomixis striatigula)

Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone mutata)

Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone mutata)

Sakalava Weaver (Ploceus sakalava)

Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis)

Souimanga Sunbird (Cinnyris sovimanga)

Madagascar Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus)

Long-tailed Ground-Roller (Uratelornis chimaera)

Ashy Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina cinerea)

Namaqua Dove (Oena capensis)

Sickle-billed Vanga (Falculea palliata)

Littoral Rock-Thrush (Pseudocossyphus imerinus)

Madagascar Kestrel (Falco newtoni)

Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)

Madagascar manikin/munia (Lonchura nana)

Broad-billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucurus)

Yellow-billed (or Black) Kite (Milvus migrans)

White-throated Rail (Dryolimnas cuvieri)

Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata)

Madagascar Rail (Rallus madagascariensis)

Gray-crowned Greenbul (Phyllastrephus cinereiceps)

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

?Malagasy Scops-Owl (Otus rutilus)

Pair of Collared Nightjars (Caprimulgus enarratus)

Nelicourvi Weaver (Ploceus nelicourvi)

Madagascar Coucal (Centropus toulou)

Nelicourvi Weaver (Ploceus nelicourvi)

Blue Coua (Coua caerulea)

Great blue heron

Red-necked phalarope

Long-billed curlew

Red-necked phalarope

Tricolored blackbirds

Brown pelican (juvenile)

Brown pelican (juvenile)

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White-faced ibis (molting and colorful)

Another whitefaced ibis

This black tern was defending some nearby offspring and tried to chase me away

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Horned lark, sharing the sage brush perches with the sage thrashers

Sage grouse departing

Fledgling yellow warbler

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Juvenile male black-headed grosbeak

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Warbling vireo - in sunlit conditions; compare to the other one, in overcast...

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Tree swallow adult, looking after two young ones.

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Couldn't get very close to this osprey and chick on its nest - on a pole provided by the power company so it didn't nest on the power lines

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(Intermediate morph) Swainson's hawk.

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Common snipe, on a fencepost

Cordilleran flycatcher (at least for now)

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Family of Barrows goldeneye : one adult, four offspring, one learning to dive, one learning to take off and two practising swimming!

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Long heard, the warbling vireo finally appeared long enough to have its picture taken

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The origin of the name is clearly visible in this shot, the clearest I saw the ruffed grouse.

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Swainson's thrush, deep in the forest with a juicy lunch

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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)

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Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)

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Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)

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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)

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Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)

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Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)

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Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)

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Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica)

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Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)

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Double-toothed Kite (Harpagus bidentatus)

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American Pygmy Kingfisher (Chloroceryle aenea)

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Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

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Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis)

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Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)

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Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)

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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

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Albino house finch returned

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Lesser goldfinch

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