Looking NE from Cerro Dragon

Looking NE from Cerro Dragon
180° panorama, looking NE from Cerro Dragon on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Day 15, August 8: Harare

We did a little birding on the way to the airstrip.

Common sandpiper


Black-threated wattle-eye, in the branches. Really!

A great egret and saddlebill  stork

Blacksmith plover

Rufous-bellied heron

Egyptian geese

African yellow white-eyes

Red-billed fire finch


Common slender mongoose


Wire-tailed swallow

Double-banded sandgrouse

three-banded plover


cape buffaloes

red-billed oxpeckers

And a nyala, quite a specialty of Mana Pools

A double-bandad sandgrouse and one of its two chicks


yellow-billed stork

After we got back to York Lodge in Harare...

A red-eyed dove

and one of my favorite birds of the whole trip, a purple-crested turaco. They come down to the bird-bath in York Lodge to drink.
















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