The small group of photographers I was with did not include any birders, so we did not always stop to photograph interesting birds while looking for big game, but we did see quite a few neat birds. A few notes:

Southern yellow-billed hornbill - a ubiquitous bird featured prominently in Disney's "Lion King"!
Southern Ground Hornbill - endangered, to some extent due to loss of habitat because the overpopulation of elephants is decimating trees required for nesting.
Ostrich - very deadly and we gave them more space than we gave rhinos
Oxpecker - they have a symbiotic relationship with large mammals by eating ticks - seen here on the head of a rhino - he was going into the rhino's ear to eat ticks!
The "kori bustard" - I guess not to be confused with its more common cousins, the "crazy bustard" and the "cheap bustard"?

More big cats to come...

This is the 4th in a series....
Nice set Steve.
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The small group of photographers I was with did not include any birders, so we did not always stop to photograph interesting birds while looking for big game, but we did see quite a few neat birds. A few notes:

Southern yellow-billed hornbill - a ubiquitous bird featured prominently in Disney's "Lion King"!
Southern Ground Hornbill - endangered, to some extent due to loss of habitat because the overpopulation of elephants is decimating trees required for nesting.
Ostrich - very deadly and we gave them more space than we gave rhinos
Oxpecker - they have a symbiotic relationship with large mammals by eating ticks - seen here on the head of a rhino - he was going into the rhino's ear to eat ticks!
The "kori bustard" - I guess not to be confused with its more common cousins, the "crazy bustard" and the "cheap bustard"?

More big cats to come...

This is the 4th in a series....

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-486106-1.html

The small group of photographers I was with did not include any birders, so we did not always stop to photograph interesting birds while looking for big game, but we did see quite a few neat birds. A few notes:

Southern yellow-billed hornbill - a ubiquitous bird featured prominently in Disney's "Lion King"!
Southern Ground Hornbill - endangered, to some extent due to loss of habitat because the overpopulation of elephants is decimating trees required for nesting.
Ostrich - very deadly and we gave them more space than we gave rhinos
Oxpecker - they have a symbiotic relationship with large mammals by eating ticks - seen here on the head of a rhino - he was going into the rhino's ear to eat ticks!
The "kori bustard" - I guess not to be confused with its more common cousins, the "crazy bustard" and the "cheap bustard"?

More big cats to come...

This is the 4th in a series....

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-486106-1.html

The small group of photographers I was with did not include any birders, so we did not always stop to photograph interesting birds while looking for big game, but we did see quite a few neat birds. A few notes:

Southern yellow-billed hornbill - a ubiquitous bird featured prominently in Disney's "Lion King"!
Southern Ground Hornbill - endangered, to some extent due to loss of habitat because the overpopulation of elephants is decimating trees required for nesting.
Ostrich - very deadly and we gave them more space than we gave rhinos
Oxpecker - they have a symbiotic relationship with large mammals by eating ticks - seen here on the head of a rhino - he was going into the rhino's ear to eat ticks!
The "kori bustard" - I guess not to be confused with its more common cousins, the "crazy bustard" and the "cheap bustard"?

More big cats to come...

This is the 4th in a series....

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-486106-1.html