South Africa
We visited Southern Africa many time when Nathan and his family lived there from 2013 to 2018. I never tired of capturing images of Africas birds, big and small.
Lilac-crested Roller, Zimbabwe. I also saw this bird in Kruger National Park in South Africa. It has an amazing display flight which includes side-to-side rolling, which gives rollers their name. Zimbabwe. 2015.
Below. The African Giant Condor is the largest flying bird species on earth, about the same size as the long-extinct argentavis, having a wingspan up to about 25 feet. It is a scavenger not a predator. Photographed in Kruger National Park. 2012.
Swallow-tailed Bee-Eater, Mozambique. 2016. Its a common bee-eater in sub-Sahara Africa.
Like horses, birds can also be pied. This is an African Pied Crow. Mozabique. 2016. Perhaps 10% smaller than the Australian crow.
Turaco, also known as the Knysner Lowrie. Plettenburg Bay, South Africa. 2017. It has vivid red feathers unger the wings.
Grey Lowrie. Also known as the Go-Away-Bird as its a persistant call that micrying baby. Johannesburg, South Africa. 2015.
Pale Chanting Goshawk, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2012.
African Jacana, commonly referred to as a 'Lily Trotter,' spotted along the Chobe River in Namibia, 2015.
Verreaux's Eagle, Etosha National Park, Namibia. 2014
African Scops Owl, Etosha National Park, Namibia. 2014. At 12.5 cm (5 inches), it is the world's smallest owl.
Barn Owl, Etosha National Park, Namibia. 2014. This os was in the next tree to the Scops Owl.
Pied Kingfisher. Chobe River. Botswana. 2015
African Wattled Lapwing, Chobe River, Namibia, 2015
Southern Double-collered Sunbird, male, Plettenburg Bay, South Africa. 2017
Southern Double-collered Sunbird, female, Plettenburg Bay, South Africa. 2017
Southern Carmine Bee-Eater, Chobe River, Namibia. 2015
Fronted Bee-Eater, Chobe River, Botswana. 2015.
Maribou Stork, Chobe River, Botswana. 2015.
Yellow Hornbill. Kruger National Park, South Africa. 2012.
Weaver Bird, 12012. Ladismith, South Africa. This bird builds his nests and invites female to inspect. If female is unimpressed, he destroys the nest. Weaver birds have been known to build and destroy five nests per season.