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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Birds

Besides the beautiful landscape of this area, its dunes, salt pans and canyons, it harbors a surprisingly amount of wildlife for a place so arid, especially birds. Here's one of the amazing (and huge) nests of the Sociable Weaver Bird, which can contain hundreds of nests and may fell the trees they're built in from their sheer weight.


Two views of the rather shy Korhaan:


A pied crow


A stately female ostrich:

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