Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
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Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
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Namaqua Dove Oena capensis, female
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En route, we make some new friends and attract a fair bit of attention.
Exclamatory Paradise Wydah Vidua interjecta
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Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix Leucotis
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Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
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Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
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Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
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Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
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The long and dusty road upriver, with some interesting traffic on the roads: in the third photo, note
the livestock on top of all the luggage and at the front under the cargo net! A Senegalese truckload
heading home for the Feast of Tobaski.
Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
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But plenty of wildlife to be found away from the roads and the crowds...
Namaqua Dove Oena capensis, male
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Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
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Greyish Eagle Owl Bubo cinerascens
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Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus robustus
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Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
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Bush fire with Black Kites Milvus migrans in attendance
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Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
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Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
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Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
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Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
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Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
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Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
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Rufous-crowned Roller Coracias naevia
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Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
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Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssiniica
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Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumeniferus
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Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus, female
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Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
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African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus, female
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