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Marico Sunbird

If you look carefully, you can see the small winged insect it has in its beak!
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Violet-backed Starling
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Spectacled Weaver
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Red-eyed Dove
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Wire-tailed Swallow
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African Skimmer (Juvenile)
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African Skimmer (Adult) in Flight, with a Fish
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Water Thick-knee
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African Fish Eagle Calling
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Chacma Baboon (Juvenile)
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African Jacana
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African Marsh Harrier
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White-headed Wattled Lapwing

I'm always fascinated by the 'spikes' on the front edge of their wings
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Yellow-billed Stork in Flight
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Open-billed Stork in Flight
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Sacred Ibis in Flight
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Grey Heron in Flight
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African Jacana Chick
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Blacksmith Lapwing in Flight
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Southern Carmine Bee-eater
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Elephant 'Dust-bathing'
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Chacma Baboon Family
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Pied Kingfisher
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Crocodile Eating Large Catfish
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Malachite Kingfisher (Adult)
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Malachite Kingfisher (Juvenile)
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Pied Kingfisher Fight
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Little Bee-eater
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Saddle-billed Stork
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African Spoonbill
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African Spoonbill in Flight
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Egyptian Goose in Flight
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Black-crowned Night Heron (Adult) in Flight
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Black-crowned Night Heron (Juvenile) in Flight
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Hamerkop in Flight

There was substantial backlighting in this shot, necessitating adjustments in Photoshop to bring out the shadow detail
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Saddle-billed Stork in Flight
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Brown-hooded Kingfisher
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Pied Kingfisher Hovering

It was amazing how many of these beautiful little birds we saw, and how often they hovered in front of us, resulting in way too many photos taken!
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Pied Kingfisher with Fish
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Lilac-breasted Roller

Along with the Southern Carmine Bee-eater, these are among the most colorful birds I've ever seen
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African Fish Eagle in Flight
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Yellow-billed Kite in Flight
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Martial Eagle in Flight
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Southern Carmine Bee-eater in Flight

We saw quite a few of these flying around, but they were usually very far away, and moving incredibly fast and unpredictably. I consider myself fortunate to have one shot, even though it is heavily cropped because of the distance
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Yellow-billed Kite Drinking

We were watching a large herd of Elephants drinking, when this Kite circled around, landed, and then got some water himself
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African Fish Eagle with a Long-toed Lapwing

This is a comical shot, one of my favorites from this trip. While it appears that the Lapwing is 'hitching' a ride on the Fish Eagle, in fact it had been chasing and harassing the Eagle, coming from behind, and I happened to get a shot just when it caught up with it!
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Oxpeckers on a Hippo
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Three-banded Plover
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White-headed Wattled Lapwing

Again, notice the prominent 'spikes'!
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Wattled Crane
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Red-billed Hornbill
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African Grey Hornbill
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Lilac-breased Roller in Flight

A very fortuitous shot of this beautiful, fast-flying bird!
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Leopard in Tree
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Lion Cub
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Leopard carrying Carcass of its Prey

Our guides indicated that the Leopard originally made the kill, but was later chased off by Lions, which apparently ate most of its kill. The Leopard was basically trapped in the tree for quite a while until it felt safe enough from the Lions to come down
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Magpie Shrike
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African Jacana hitching a ride on a Hippo
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Burchell's Coucal
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Yellow-billed Kite eating a Snake
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African Hoopoe
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White-backed Vulture
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Hooded Vulture
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Bennett's Woodpecker

This is the only Woodpecker we saw on this trip, which surprised us. Shooting this one was quite difficult, requiring me to contort myself holding the large 600mm lens, given its height on the tree, and my position in our Land Rover
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Southern Ground Hornbill
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Leopard Walking in the Open

We were amazed that we had several opportunities to photograph Leopards, Lions and Cheetahs, walking around out in the open, right in front of our vehicles!
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Lion with its Cape Buffalo Kill

This adult male Lion showed significant cuts and scarring from this, and previous, kills. The Cape Buffalo obviously gave him quite a fight!
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Leopard Cleaning its Mouth

We had been watching and photographing this Leopard feast on an Impala it had killed and brought up into a tree. It then took some time to clean itself off, much as a common housecat does
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Leopard Jumping from a Tree

After it was done eating, we watched as it leapt down onto a termite mound, giving us a very unusual photo-op!
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Bateleur Eagle
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Marabou Stork
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Lappet-faced Vulture in Flight
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Giant Eagle Owl

This was an unsual bird to see and photograph. We had seen one in a tree at night, when returning from a game drive, but it was even more exciting to see one during the day, when we could get decent photographs. It was extremely high up in a tree, making photograph difficult, and with a less desirable shooting angle, but I was happy to come home with this photo
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Go-away Bird
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Yellow-billed Hornbill
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Glossy Starling

While 'only' a Starling species, the iridescence of its feather in the sunlight was quite something to see!
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White-crowned Lapwing
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Fork-tailed Drongo
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Green Wood Hoopoe
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Rhino Mother and Child

No Africa trip would be complete without at least one Rhino photo!
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Cheetah Yawning
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Cheetah Brothers 1

It was just incredible seeing not just one, but a pair of Cheetahs, walking together, in the beautifully warm sunlight as sunset was approaching
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Cheetah Brothers 2
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Cheetah Brothers 3
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Green-winged Pytilia

This was an incredibly colorful bird, with gorgeous markings. It was also exceptionally difficult to shoot, as it was in a field far below us, and moving around rapidly
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Brown Snake Eagle
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Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk

ID courtsey of Benjamin Lederer of Active Africa, and Andrew Van Rhyn, our Guide/Driver at Jaci's Tree Lodge
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Southern Pied Babbler
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Elephants Rough-housing

This was fascinating to watch, as this pair of elephants 'fought' each other. Presumably, they were just play-fighting, but regardless it was a lot of fun to watch and photograph
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Purple Roller

A most beautiful bird, with very poor lighting. You can just get a hint of the purple at the front edge of its body, just under the wings
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