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As we wrap up the year, we want to express our sincere gratitude for your unwavering support. We eagerly anticipate the opportunity to collaborate with you once more in the upcoming year of 2024. #happyholidays #merrychristmas #happynewyear #birds #birdwatching #ostrich #eye
🦁🌍 Happy World Lion Day! 🌍🦁
Today, we celebrate the majestic kings and queens of the savannah, the awe-inspiring lions! 🦁✨ These incredible creatures are not just symbols of strength and courage, but they also play a crucial role in maintaining the balance of their ecosystems.
Let's take a moment to appreciate and protect these magnificent big cats and the habitats they call home. 🏞️❤️ Lions face many challenges, from habitat loss to poaching, and it's up to us to raise awareness and take action to ensure their survival in the wild.
Remember, even small actions can make a big difference! Support reputable conservation organizations, spread knowledge about the threats they face, and together, we can make a positive impact on the future of lions and their habitats. 🌿🦁
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🌍 Found in arid and semi-arid areas, the Namaqua Dove is amongst the smallest doves in Africa. Its soft, sandy-brown plumage blends perfectly with its habitat. They can survive without drinking water for extended periods. 🌿🌏 #NamaquaDove #Birdwatching #Nature #Wildlife #Birds #Dove #Bird
🦩🌿 The Squacco Heron is a small elegant bird boasting beautiful plumage of cream, brown, and chestnut hues, with delicate streaks and a striking blue-grey head. Its elongated neck and dagger-like bill give it an unmistakable silhouette.
🏞️ You can often spot the Squacco Heron gracefully wading through shallow waters, patiently waiting for its prey. It primarily dines on fish, amphibians, and insects, displaying impressive hunting skills.
👉 Fun Fact: During the breeding season, these herons build their nests in dense vegetation, skillfully weaving branches together for a cozy home. 🦢
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📸 Nature's Majestic Guardian: The Goliath Heron 🌿
🦢 Have you ever encountered a true symbol of grace and power? Meet the stunning Goliath Heron, an extraordinary creature that exudes magnificence in the wetlands! 🦢
📌 Fun Fact: The Goliath Heron, standing at an impressive height of 4-5 feet, is the world's largest heron species! With its elegant slate-gray plumage, towering stature, and long, dagger-like bill, it's truly a sight to behold. 😍 It is a very large grey wading bird with a chestnut head, neck and belly and is the largest living heron. The goliath heron is known for its peculiar characteristics, such as its solitary nature, preference for aquatic habitat and its extremely slow movement and actions.
📸 Capture the Moment: Watching this regal bird in action is a photographer's dream come true! Whether it's stealthily stalking its prey or taking off into the skies, every moment spent observing the Goliath Heron is a mesmerizing experience. 📸
🌿 Conservation Status: Unfortunately, these majestic herons face several threats to their habitat due to human encroachment and pollution. Let's spread awareness and do our part in preserving their wetland homes for generations to come. 💚
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The Shelley's Francolin is frequently found in grassland areas and open acacia savannas within the local region. It displays distinct characteristics, such as its belly being prominently marked with black bars and its wings exhibiting a rufous color during flight. The sides of its head showcase a tawny buff shade with postocular lines that are black-flecked and widen as they reach the neck.
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White-headed Buffalo Weaver
Watch this short clip of the White-headed Buffalo Weaver https://youtube.com/watch?v=53aAuv_vosg a striking bird with white head with bright orange-red upper and under tail coverts and white wing-patches. It is commonly found in dry bush, savanna and acacia thickets. #bird #birding #birdwatching #nature #weavers #wildlife #travel #birdphotography #birdsonearth
Emerald-spotted Wood-dove
The Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove is a common but inconspicuous resident of drier savanna and thickets. It is described as a small, dainty, pinkish-fawn, ground-dwelling dove with an all-dark bill and two rows of iridescent green spots on the wing. In flight it reveals bright rufous wings and three grey bands: two across the back and one across the tail.
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White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
The White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher is a large, long-tailed flycatcher with a huge pale eye-ring, dark grey wing and tail; and pale grey head and underparts found in montane habitats including forest edge, woodland, and gardens.
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Brubru
The Brubru is a small chestnut-sided bush-shrike of low savanna trees and open woodland. An adult male is a small black and white bush-shrike with chestnut flanks and bold white supercilium vaguely recalling batis.
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Commonly found in woodland, thickets, and lush scrub foraging by hopping across the ground the Northern Pied-Babbler is a bold marked babbler with pale eyes, grey-brown upperparts and mostly white underparts. #bird #birding #babbler #nature #travel #birdphotography
Topi is a medium-sized antelope with a striking reddish-brown to purplish-red coat with distinct black patches on their face, upper forelegs, hips and thighs. They only eat grass using their narrow muzzle that is well-adapted for selecting the most tender growth. They graze for a while and then rest and chew their cud before continuing feeding. Females have developed the ability to stall the labor process if they sense immediate danger.
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The African Darter is commonly found in freshwater wetlands, preferring placid to fast flowing waters. It is also called the snakebird. Males have a rusty neck and a white stripe running from the eye down the side of the head, which is duller when not breeding. Females and juveniles are muted and brown.
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Hippos are the only mammal that lives both on land and water. It serves as a bridge between both worlds, taking nutrients from land and dumping them in water bodies. Watch this video of hippos fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHL4dLsqrwI Hippos are currently identified as vulnerable species, with about 115,000 to 130,000 remaining in the wild. Their declining population is attributed to poaching, loss of access to fresh water, mechanized farming, and urbanization. #Hippo #Nature #Wildlife
The Pin-tailed Whydah is a small, gregarious, species found in wide variety of open habitats including agricultural fields, parks, and gardens. The glorious adult male is unmistakable with its long tail and bright reddish bill. In nonbreeding #plumage, both male and female have streaks on the sides of the upper chest, a boldly striped head, an orange-pink bill, and dark legs. In breeding plumage, the bill of female is dusky. Juveniles are dull brown overall. Like other whydahs and #indigobirds, the Pin-tailed Whydah is an obligate brood parasite, but unlike the others, it does not rely exclusively on a single target species, and it is by far the commonest and most widely distributed member of its family.
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Often found in well-vegetated areas in dry landscapes such as gardens and shrubs, the Common Bulbul has a dark face and throat, pallid belly and yellow undertail.
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The Superb Starling is a chunky, short-tailed, colorful savanna starling characterized by the white breast band. They are omnivores and feed on seeds, fruits, insects and other invertebrates.
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Characterized by its bright green head, rich rufous underparts, yellow chin and throat outlined in black, with a white extension to the side showing black patches at the back of the wings and sides of the tail; the Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater is a colorful, medium-sized bee-eater found in forest, gardens, and lush woodland at middle and high elevations. When perched, their stance is upright with the tail pointing downward.
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International Zebra Day aims to help raise awareness about the living conditions of zebras and how their numbers can be protected from further decline. They are mostly found on the African continent; and are easily identifiable by their unique black and white stripes. Here are more fun facts about Zebras;
• A group of Zebras is called a dazzle
• There are three types of zebra; the Grévy’s zebra, plains zebra, and the mountain zebra.
• The Grévy’s zebra, found in the northern regions of Kenya and are extremely rare and they are an endangered species. Their population has gone down by about 54% over the past three decades, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.
• Their stripes help them blend in grassland habitat
• Zebra stripes are unique because, what fingerprints are to humans, stripes are to zebras.
• Zebra foals can stand up as early as six minutes after they’ve been born
• Zebras can run at a speed of 40 miles per hour.
• They can sleep standing up and also while lying down too.
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