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28-Sep-2018

Kori Bustard, Nxai Pan NP, 28 Sep 2018

National bird of Botswana. Solitary, ground-dwelling omnivore of open grassland to shrubland. World's heaviest flying bird at max 49 pounds.
[Note that this information and that for many of the ensuing slides is taken from: Hancock, Peter and Ingrid Weiersbye. 2016. Birds of Botswana.
Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford. 398 pp. Other wildlife information comes from personal knowledge, trip guides, and Wikipedia.]

Canon EOS 7D
1/320s f/11.0 at 400.0mm iso400 full exif

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