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Eastern Cape Birding - Storms River Mouth
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Eastern Cape Birding
World renowned for its rugged coastline and the Otter Trail, the Storms River section of the Garden Route National Park is also a prime bird-watching spot in the Eastern Cape. Mountain fynbos, coastal forest and a rocky coastline provide a diverse habitat for a large variety of birdlife including Chorister Robin-Chat and Knysna Turaco. For the lucky, Cape Clawless...
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Eastern Cape Birding
A broad, glistening white smile greeted me warmly as I arrived at the entrance gate to the Garden Route National Park and Storms River Mouth Rest Camp. After paying my entrance fees I drove into an extremely well maintained reserve with dense ancient coastal forests lining the roadsides where relaxed Bushbuck foraged in the shadows and the constant sound...
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Eastern Cape Birding
With dense coastal forests extending right down to the beachfront, expansive misty grasslands and numerous estuaries flowing into the sea, it felt more like I was in some remote West African destination than standing in the middle of a shallow estuary mouth within the Dwesa Nature Reserve on the Wild Coast of South Africa.
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Eastern Cape Birding
Algoa Bay is home to 45% of the worlds remaining African Penguin population and up to 68% of the worlds Cape Gannets with numbers rapidly decreasing in both populations. These figures really hit me hard as I joined the dedicated team of South African National Park rangers on their boat patrol of the bay. SANParks is looking at declaring...
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Eastern Cape Birding
Larks and pipits are, as I am sure they are to many a birder, my weak point and I had decided to brush up on these confusing species by making a trip to the montane grassveld of the Mountain Zebra National Park. This area is striking in its scenic beauty with its typical karoo flat-topped hills and open vistas....
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