Our wonderful birders, Pru and Keith (the professor) who have sadly left us after Chobe, have written a list of the birds we saw on our first evening's night cruise on the Chobe River - 45 species of birds, and the animals of course, but here are the list of birds.
White breasted cormorant, Reed cormorant, Darter, Goliath Heron, Purple Heron, Grey Heron, Yellow Billed Egret, Great White Heron, Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Squauuo (?) Heron, Black Heron, Slaty Egret, Black Crowned Night Heron, Yellow Billed Stork, Maribou Stork, African Spoonbill Stork, Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, Sacred Ibis, Egyptian Goose, Fish Eagle,Yellow Billed Kite, Gaba Goshawk, Helmeted Guinea Fowl, Black Crake, Long toed (?) lapwing Plover, Blacksmith Lapwing Plover, Little Stint, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, Skimmer, Grey-headed Gull, Lourie (grey), Giant Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Malachita Kingfisher, White Fronted Bee Eater, African Grey Hornbill, Red billed hornbill, Wire Tailed Swallow, African Pipet, Red-billed oxperker (?), Marico Sunbird, Jaunnm (?).
Apologies for some of the spelling - the professors's handwriting a bit hard to decipher - I hope someone more knowledgable can correct them.
Needless to say most of us did not see so many, but we loved what we did see, just an incredible variety of birds on the river.
Ellen
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