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Crested Francolin Francolinus sephaena
South Africa, November 2006

The Crested Francolin is a widespread and common African species found from southern Sudan, Ethiopia and western Somalia, south through Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania (excluding western regions) to Mozambique, Angola and NE South Africa. It is typically found in dense bush and dry woodland - these two birds were in [...]

Thornveld birding: The Zaagkiuldrift gravel road to Kgomo-Kgomo (north of Pretoria)
04 October 2006
 

A section of the Zaagkiuldrift gravel road to Kgomo-Kgomo

 
Another superb day in South Africa, this time spent birding along a 20km gravel road going through dense thornveld about 120km north of Johannesburg. As different from the open grasslands south of Jo’burg as the [...]