Monday, March 19, 2012

Seen on Safari



For my zoologically curious friends, a list of the animals and some of the birds we saw on safari (thanks Charley, for passing on the list!): 


Rhino
Bush buck
Camel (this was a tourist trap)
Baboon (with babies)
Cheetah (with babies)
Bush baby (Lesser galago)
Leopard
Hippo (with baby)
Cape buffalo
Crocodile
Lion(ess) with cubs
Golden jackal
Warthog (with wartlet)
Elephant (and very young baby)
Topi
Vervet monkey
Colobus monkey
Stienbok



Black backed jackals
Golden jackal
Dwarf mongoose
Aardvark
Bat-eared foxes
Giraffe
Zebra (with baby)
African wild cat
African scrub Hare
Leopard Tortoise
Eland
Hartebeeste (Kongoni)
Spotted Hyena
Striped hyena
Wildebeest (white bearded Gnu, with baby)
Thompsons gazelle
Grants gazelle
Dik Dik
Impala
Water buck
Reedbok
Hyrax
Terrapin
Grass snake







Birds we identified:

Crown crane
Kori busterd
Cattle egret
Red capped lark
Rufus naped lark
Paradise whydah (very long tail only during mating season)
Black chested snake eagle
Black shouldered kite

Spoonbill
Lesser and greater Flamingo
Superb Starling
Hoopoe (woodpecker like bird)
Guinea fowl
Secretary bird
Ostrich
Vulture
Yellow throated long-claw bird
Fishers lovebird
Tawny eagle
Maribou stork

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