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Lilac Breasted Roller  
   

Lilac Breasted Roller

This bird-on-a-stick is literally a bird on a stick. The Lilac Breasted Roller perches rather blatantly at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it spots insects, lizards, scorpions, snails, frogs, small birds and rodents moving about on the ground.
Day 6: A Day in the Delta

April 2nd 2008
I didn’t sleep last night. I know that because I heard every marula fruit within a hundred yards of me leaving the trees and landing on the corrugated iron roofs. I also know that the genets were having a talent show and the local troupe had donned their clogs and were dancing up and down the roof of my lodge to Offenbach’s famous Can-Can. I just wasn’t sure why they’d chosen last night fo ... read more
Africa » Botswana » North-West » Okavango Delta

Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural) Flag Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name upon independence in 1966. Four decades of uninterrupted civilian leadership, progressive social policies, and significant capital investment have created one of the mos... ... read more
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