The rich variety of habitats protected within the borders of the Marakele National Park harbours an amazing variety of bird species (besides the hornbills we showed you yesterday). These are just a few of the other species we saw and photographed in the two days we spent at Marakele last week.
Cape Vulture in flight over Marakele National Park (photo by Joubert)
Black-shouldered Kite
Black Stork (photo by Joubert)
Swallow-tailed Bee-eaters
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Immature Marico Flycatcher
Immature Gabar Goshawk (photo by Joubert)
European bee-eater
Cape Turtle-Dove
Crested Barbet (photo by Joubert)
Mocking Cliff-chat (female)
Red-backed Shrike with a dung beetle in its beak
Female ostrich striding through Bontle camp (photo by Joubert)
Helmeted Guineafowl
Black Flycatcher
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So ‘n pragtige verskeidenheid Dries!
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Wat n voorreg om dit alles by Marakele te kon beleef, Aletta
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😀 Dis wonderlik
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Great variety, Dries. I especially like the stork and bee eater.
7’s is over again but we’re WAY behind due to whitewater rafting yesterday. We saw the Boks win the first one but there so many more games to go.
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We only caught bits and pieces of the HK7s tournament as well, Janet… I’ll wait for you to catch up before saying more.
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I know it’s hard since you’ve already seen the result so thanks for putting up with my comments. 😁
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Ek dink nie ek het al ‘n Black Stork gesien nie – is hulle algemeen in Suid-Afrika? Die voeltjies is so mooi – ek’s veral mal oor die kleurvolle Bee-eaters.
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Nee Corna, die swartooievaar is regtig skaars in ons land – die kenners reken net omtrent 200 broeipare die hele land oor.
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Will those stocks be migrating north, Dries? Last year we kind of got hooked on watching the nest-cam of the black storks nesting in Estonia during the northern hemisphere summer.
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Our small population of Black Storks are resident year round, Tracy – unlike the White Storks that migrate enormous distances from the northern hemisphere to spend the summer with us.
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That’s interesting, Dries. Thank you for the information.
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Always a pleasure, Tracy!
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We are so fortunate to be able to enjoy such a wide variety of bird life!
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I couldn’t agree with you more, Anne!
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Beautiful. Thank you.
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Glad to know you liked this gallery, thanks Lakshmi
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