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But there's still one more chunk of data before we finish this introducation. In general, I'm not going to make an effort to show every species we saw in this photo album. This will be “highlight” pictures, we'll tell the “story” of our trip, etc. But I wouldn't be living up to the title of “animal nerd” if I didn't include at least this giant table of everything we saw. So, here are just about all the animals we saw, and which camps we saw them at. Especially for birds, this only counts animals that were close enough to identify reliably. Also I haven't made any effort to include insects; call me a vertebrate snob. Check-plus's indicate animals we saw with their young.
Total counts look like: thirty-three mammal species, six reptile species, and one hundred and thirty bird species, for a grand total of (at least) one hundred and sixty-nine unique species.
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Baboon, yellow |
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Badger, honey (ratel) |
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Buffalo, African |
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Bushbuck |
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Cat, African wild |
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Cheetah |
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Elephant, African |
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Genet, small-spotted |
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Giraffe, southern |
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Hare, scrub |
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Hippopotamus |
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Hyena, spotted |
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Impala |
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Jackal, black-backed |
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Kudu, greater |
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Lechwe, red |
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Leopard |
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Lion |
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Mongoose, banded |
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Mongoose, dwarf |
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Mongoose, slender |
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Monkey, vervet |
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Porcupine, African |
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Reedbuck |
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Serval |
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Springhare |
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Squirrel, bush |
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Steenbok |
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Tsessebe |
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Warthog |
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Wild dog, African |
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Wildebeest, common |
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Zebra, Burchell's (plains) |
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Crocodile, Nile |
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Frog, painted reed |
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Snake, olive sand |
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Skink, striped |
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Monitor, Nile |
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Tortoise, leopard |
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Babble, arrow-marked |
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Babbler, white-rumped |
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Barbet, crested |
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Barbet, pied |
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Bateleur |
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Bee-eater, carmine |
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Bee-eater, little |
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Bittern, dwarf |
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Buffalo-weaver, red-billed |
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Bulbul, black-eyed |
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Chat, stone |
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Cicsticola, rattling |
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Cisticola, luapula |
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Cormorant, great |
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Cormorant, reed |
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Coucal, black |
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Coucal, copper-tailed |
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Crane, wattled |
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Darter, African |
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Dikkop, water |
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Dove, cape turte |
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Dove, emerald-spotted |
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Dove, laughing |
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Dove, mourning |
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Dove, Namaqua |
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Dove, ring-necked |
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Drongo, fork-tailed |
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Duck, comb-billed |
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Duck, knob-billed |
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Duck, white-faced |
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Duck, yellow-billed |
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Eagle, African fish |
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Eagle, African hawk |
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Eagle, black-breasted snake |
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Eagle, brown snake |
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Eagle, martial |
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Eagle, tawny |
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Eagle, Western banded snake |
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Egret, black |
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Egret, cattle |
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Egret, great white |
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Egret, little |
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Egret, slate |
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Flycatcher, fan-tailed |
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Flycatcher, paradise |
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Francolin, red-necked |
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Francolin, Swainson's |
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Go-away bird, grey (lourie) |
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Goose, Egyptian |
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Goose, spur-winged |
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Grebe, little |
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Guineafowl, helmeted |
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Hammerkop |
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Harrier, marsh |
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Heron, black-crowned night |
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Heron, goliath |
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Heron, green-backed |
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Heron, grey |
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Heron, purple |
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Heron, squacco |
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Honeyguide, greater |
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Hoopoe, African |
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Hoopoe, red-billed wood |
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Hornbill, grey |
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Hornbill, red-billed |
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Hornbill, southern ground |
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Hornbill, yellow-billed |
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Ibis, globby |
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Ibis, hadeda |
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Ibis, sacred |
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Jacana |
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Kingfisher, malachite |
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Kingfisher, pied |
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Kingfisher, striped |
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Kite, black-shouldered |
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Kite, yellow-billed (black) |
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Korhaan, red-crested |
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Kori bustard |
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Lapwing, blacksmith |
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Lark, rufous-naped |
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Mousebird, red-faced |
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Ostrich |
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Owl, Verreaux's (giant) eagle |
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Oxbill, blue |
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Oxpecker, red-billed |
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Oxpecker, yellow-billed |
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Parrot, brown (Meyer's) |
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Pelican, pink-backed |
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Pigeon, green |
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Pipit, grassland |
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Plover, crowned |
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Plover, long-toed |
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Plover, wattled |
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Prantincole, red-winged (collared) |
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Quail, common |
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Quelea, red-billed |
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Robin, white-browed scrub |
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Roller, broad-billed |
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Roller, lilac-breasted |
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Roller, rufous-crowned |
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Sandgrouse, double-banded |
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Sandpiper, common |
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Secretarybird |
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Shank, green |
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Shrike, crimson-breasted |
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Shrike, magpie |
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Sparrow, grey-headed |
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Spoonbill |
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Starling, Burchell's |
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Starling, glossy |
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Starling, greater blue-eared |
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Starling, long-tailed |
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Starling, wattled |
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Stilt, black-winged |
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Stork, marabou |
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Stork, open-billed |
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Stork, saddle-billed |
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Swift, little |
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Swift, palm |
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Tchagra, black-crowned |
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Tchagra, three-streaked |
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Teal, Capeteal, red-billed |
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Tern, whiskered |
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Thrush, kurrichane |
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Tit, southern black |
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Vulture, hooded |
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Vulture, white-backed |
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Weaver, golden |
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Weaver, white-browed sparrow |
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Woodpecker, bearded |
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