{"id":1895132,"date":"2018-03-15T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=1895132"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:30:09","slug":"colorful-birds-of-kruger-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/colorful-birds-of-kruger-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Birds of Kruger Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching Wood Pigeons and Blackbirds digging in the snow out of my window now, but my head and heart are still in South Africa. Luckily those images keep the memories fresh and warm.<\/p>\n

On February 16th we drove around Satara, to the south and to the east. We left very early, especially for big mammals. The plan worked well, and we saw some exciting stuff (more to follow), but here I will focus on the birds we saw during that day and also during my short drive out of the park to Orpen Gatecon the 17th. As always in Africa, the focus is on colourful, long-tailed birds.<\/p>\n

I love Hornbills, even if they don’t have eyelashes. Here’s a sweet pair of Red-billed Hornbills:<\/p>\n

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Burchell’s Starling is common but so pretty<\/p>\n

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Sound-recorded one as well: Crested Barbet is super-charismatic too<\/p>\n

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Lilac-breasted Rollers are common and usually very photogenic. This time around I had less luck photographing them. Still this adult posed nicely:<\/p>\n

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And this youngster too:<\/p>\n

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Southern Carmine Bee-eater – classic Africa<\/p>\n

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This Yellow-billed Hornbill was too close:<\/p>\n

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Three-banded Plover are neat waders:<\/p>\n

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Lots of raptors in Kruger Park. By far the commonest was Bateleur.<\/p>\n

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Brown Snake Eagle<\/p>\n

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My next post will be about vultures and cats – expect some action – African White-backed vultures and a cat<\/p>\n

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On the way back to Johannesburg I bumped into some Abdim’s Storks – very cool birds<\/p>\n

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Watching Wood Pigeons and Blackbirds digging in the snow out of my window now, but my head and heart are still in South Africa. Luckily those images keep the memories fresh and warm. On February 16th we drove around Satara, to the south and to the east. We left very early, especially for big mammals. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":2148941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[7785,7761,2123,3031,5451,3835,5447,2998,3961,5348,7832,2078],"class_list":["post-1895132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bateleur","tag-bee-eater","tag-blackbird","tag-brown-snake-eagle","tag-crested-barbet","tag-kruger-park","tag-red-billed-hornbill","tag-south-africa","tag-stork","tag-three-banded-plover","tag-white-backed-vulture","tag-wood-pigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}