Birds of Eden - swans, geese & cormorants

Cormorant:

Barnacle Goose:
Black Swan:
Spotted Dikkop:

Birds of Eden - cockatoos

Sulfur-crested Cockatoo:

Ducorp's Cockatoo:
Medium Sulfur-crested Cockatoo:

Birds of Eden - parakeets and doves

Mustache parakeet:
Rose-ringed parakeet (I think...):

...but it might be an Indian Ring-neck parakeet:

Alexandrine parakeet:


Lace-neck dove:

Barbary dove:

Rock Pigeon:

Birds of Eden - jays, starlings, thrushes and weavers

Royal or Golden-breasted starlings:
Purple Glossy Starlings:

Golden Palm Weaver:

Inca Jay:

Olive Thrush:

Birds of Eden - Pheasants

Golden Pheasant:

Golden Pheasant and Knysna Lourie:

I'm not sure what kind of pheasants these are:

Birds of Eden - toucans, ibis, and...tamarins?

Scarlet ibis:


Hadeda ibis:

Channel-billed toucan:


Monkeyland is right next door to the Birds of Eden aviary, so when we saw this little Golden-handed Tamarin raiding the bird feeders and lounging on the railings, we thought there'd been a jail-break. But no, the keepers say the tamarins are too small for Monkeyland, so they're on exhibit here. They just eat fruit and don't bother the birds, although it didn't appear to us that the birds were all that sure of this:

Cango Wildlife Park - Oudtshoorn

Somehow I forgot to include these photos when I was working on the section about Oudtshorn, but the way blogs are timed, I can't go back and insert it where it belongs, so just bear with me. Kit was interested in petting cheetahs and the one place I knew we could do that was at the Cango Wildlife Park in Oudtshoorn, so we headed off to check it out. They have lots of wildlife besides big cats; here are a few:

Dik-dik, a tiny antelope that might weigh no more than about 15 pounds fully grown:

Some kind of starling:

Bat

A South American Pale-winged Trumpeter:

Hornbills:

Leopard, indifferent:

White tiger, bored:

Spotted-necked Otter, not really interested in being photographed:

Ring-tailed lemurs:
Marabou stork:

Cape vulture:
Red River Hog:

Pygmy hippo:


Kit pets her baby cheetah:

Mine's a bit more blasé about the whole thing:

And that, I'm afraid is the end of our four-week-long sojourn in Namibia and South Africa. After 30+ hours in transit home, I'm happy to stay put for a while, although I do have a few possible destinations in mind for next year... ;)