South Africa -- 2
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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Ostriches
Goliath heron
African green-backed heron (Striated heron in South America and Australia)
African sacred ibis
African black duck
Martial eagle
Crested francolin
Coqui francolin (It's a poor picture of a shy bird, but better than nothing.)
Helmeted guineafowl
African purple swamphen
Lesser moorhen (juvenile)
Blacksmith lapwing
Temminck's courser
Double-banded sand-grouse
Speckled pigeon
Gray go-away bird (Lourie)
Pearl-spotted owl
Malachite kingfisher
Southern yellow-billed hornbill
Common scimitarbill
African hoopoe
Crested barbet in evening sunlight
Pallid flycatcher (This is not so named in Sasol. Etienne or Richard, could you please correct my records?
We saw this bird at a lunch stop in a park -- same stop as where we saw the Goliath heron, I think.)
Southern black flycatcher
Fiscal flycatcher
African pied wagtail
Magpie shrike
Brown-crowned tchagra
Chinspot batis (female)
Golden-breasted bunting
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