South Africa -- 1
These pictures were taken on a June 2004 trip guided near Johannesburg by Etienne Marais and near Cape Town by Richard Grant. We are happy to make them available to our friends for their personal use, but they are copyrighted and should not otherwise be reproduced without permission.Jump to personal pictures -- northern area from Johannesburg.
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The first time I traveled south of the equator - it was for an astronomical observing run in Chile in the early 1980s -
nothing so strongly drove home the fact that I was in the southern hemisphere as seeing the constellation Orion upside-down.
During the present trip, nothing so strongly drove home the fact that we were in Africa as seeing White rhinocerous.
Yearling ostrich on an ostrich farm. We did not officially see wild ostrich, because we did not go to the
Kalahari, but who can resist this expression?
Greater flamingo
Hammerkop
Black crake (a poor picture of a super bird)
Helmeted guineafowl
Spotted thickknee
Natal francolin
Black-chested snake-eagle
Gray go-away bird (Lourie)
Red-billed hornbill
Giant kingfisher
Brown-hooded kingfisher in evening sunlight
Cape long-billed lark
Bokmakierie
African stone-chat (male)
Cape rockjumper (male)
Lilac-breasted roller
White-bellied sunbird
Southern double-collared sunbird
Cut-throat finch
Jameson's firefinch (female)
Black-faced waxbill
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