BIRDS SEEN IN NAMIBIA, MAY, JUNE 1996 | ||
Namibia is an amazing country: sparsely populated, extremely dry, with huge deserts and the highest sand dunes in the world . We toured in the north, spending 2 days in the Etosha National Park and then in the south to the Namib Desert, where there is less wildlife to see but more spectacular scenery, including the impressive Fish Canyon, the Sossusvlei dunes (click here to see photo), the windy coastal town of Lüderitz and the abandoned, eerie goldmining town of Kolmanskop. (Total of 3158 miles in 13 days) | ||
black-chested prinia | hoopoe | red-crested korhaan |
black crow | house sparrow | red-eyed bulbul |
black eagle | Karoo korhaan | red-headed finch |
blacksmith plover | kelp gull | rock kestrel |
blue waxbill | Kori bustard | rock martin |
Burchell's starling | lanner falcon | rock pigeon |
Cape cormorant | lappet-faced vulture | rosy-faced lovebird |
Cape gannet | laughing dove | Ruppell's korhaan |
Cape sparrow | lesser flamingo | Ruppell's parrot |
Cape turtle dove | lilac-breasted roller | scaly-feathered finch |
Cape wagtail | little African swift | scarlet-chested sunbird |
common waxbill | long-billed crombec | scops owl |
crimson-breasted shrike | Ludwig's bustard | short-toed rock thrush |
crowned plover | marico flycatcher | sociable weaver |
darter | marico sunbird | South African shelduck |
Eastern white pelican | martial eagle | speckled mousebird |
Egyptian goose | mountain chat | spoonbill |
familiar chat | Namaqua dove | swallow-tailed bee-eater |
fiscal shrike | Namaqua sandgrouse | swift tern |
fork-tailed drongo | northern black korhaan | white-backed vulture |
glossy starling | ostrich | white-breasted cormorant |
greater kestrel | pale chanting goshawk | white-browed sparrow weaver |
great sparrow | pale-winged starling | white-crowned shrike |
grey-headed gull | pied barbet | white-fronted plover |
grey heron | pied crow | white-tailed shrike |
grey hornbill | pririt batis | yellow-billed egret |
grey lourie (go-away bird) | red-billed buffalo weaver | yellow-billed hornbill |
Hartlaub's gull | red-billed francolin | |
helmeted guinea fowl | red-billed hornbill | TOTAL: 85 |
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