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Sandgrouse Chicks

Three young sandgrouse chicks and their mother photographed at the Spitzkoppe in Namibia.

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The Gannets of Lamberts Bay

A visit to the wonderful gannet colony on the West Coast of South Africa.

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One on southern Africa’s most beautiful birds visits northern Namibia for a few months each year to breed in tunnels that it excavates into river banks. We visited a few of the breeding sites on the Zambezi and Kwando Rivers.
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Some of Namibia’s most beautiful birds have featured on the country’s postage stamps. A few of them can be seen by following this link.