tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40993723809707664122024-03-14T05:07:57.367+01:00Verwondering in AfrikaEen fotoblog met beelden en verhalen over onze safari's naar Nationale Parken in het Zuiden van Tanzania, in Botswana en Zambia.Corriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00123974739668662003noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099372380970766412.post-17942952761558472462018-05-04T13:42:00.000+02:002018-05-04T13:42:39.261+02:00Crossing the Zambezi<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heerlijk ronddobberend in een klein bootje op de Zambezi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De ochtend was al een heel eind op weg en wij voeren terug naar de lodge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">toen we op het eiland midden in de Zambezi een kudde olifanten zagen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We wisten direct dat dit een kudde mannen moest zijn, want we </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hadden al gehoord dat vrouwen olifant hier niet durven oversteken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De Zambezi is hier ongelooflijk breed, ca. 7 meter (!) diep en </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stroomt waanzinnig snel. Kortom, veel te gevaarlijk voor de jonkies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deze groep stond bij de punt van het eiland te dralen:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gaan we de rivier in; nee, toch weer terug...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dat gaf ons de tijd om het eiland te ronden, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">zodat we vanaf de andere kant foto's konden maken.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De eerste twee foto's zijn in de bewerking heel erg opgelicht,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">omdat we tegen de zon in keken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nu ging het fotograferen een stuk makkelijker;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we hadden de zon in de rug.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ze bleven nog steeds dralen; gaan we wel, of gaan we niet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uiteindelijk werd de knoop doorgehakt...ze gingen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Achter elkaar het water in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ik heb begrepen dat iedere kudde zijn "eigen" koereigers heeft,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In een lange rij gingen ze steeds verder het diepe water in,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">totdat...de eerste zich weer omdraaide??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nee, terug gingen ze toch niet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Het bleek het begin van een poos spelen in het water, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">heel bijzonder om te zien.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heel relaxed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Al gauw dreef er veel mest om de kudde heen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Zo draaiden ze zeker een kwartier om elkaar heen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Langzamerhand dreven ze al spelend,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tja, da's een behoorlijk steile en hoge zandwal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eerst maar eens een stukje verder lopen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hier maar eens proberen dan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ze gebruiken slurf en al hun ledematen om naar boven te klauteren.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uiteindelijk lukt het nummer één om boven te komen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De rest wil het toch een stukje verderop proberen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ze besluiten toch terug te gaan en maken </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Dan verdwijnt ook de laatste tussen het groen,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Het eiland waar de olifanten vandaan kwamen, hoort bij de</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">als je ooit die kant op wil. Het is vlakbij het NP Lower Zambezi - Zambia. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De zuidoever van de rivier vormt de grens met </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En ja, gezien hadden we ze wel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Het witte eind van de staart valt vaak goed op.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bij deze hadden we tenminste nog tijd </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vroeg in de ochtend op onze vijfde dag in het park.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Onze laatste vroege gamedrive hier - zou het nog lukken met die leopards?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Op een kronkelweggetje stopte onze gids. Hij keek even, pakte zijn verrekijker erbij, riep toen: "Hold on..." en gaf direct gas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Na een paar bochten zette hij de wagen zorgvuldig op een plek en wees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">naar de bosrand links. "Daar komen ze zo vandaan..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En ja....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Het duurde niet lang of daar kwamen ze tussen de bomen vandaan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mama luipaard met een iets kleinere erachteraan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even goed om ons heen kijken...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geeft ons de kans op een moeder-en-kind portret</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En dan ... komt broer of zus er ook aan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Het enige moment dat we ze goed met z'n drieën bij elkaar </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mams loopt alweer door, dan wij er ook maar achteraan,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Op de uitkijk...komen ze er al aan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">En dan komt ze recht op onze auto af ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ze loopt voorlangs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goed beschouwd, zien ze er ook net iets anders uit. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first I think: nice, swallows like we see in Holland. Usually they migrate to Africa. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But eh... they do that in wintertime, now it is July. Hmmm... and they slightly look different from the ones we know. There's white in their face and that tail...looks like small wires.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maar ieder apart zijn ze mooi genoeg: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">het zonnetje maakt de veren metallic blauw; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">het kopje glanst mooi (inderdaad: roodbruin) </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But one swallow at a time makes a beautiful picture also:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the sun let its feathers shine in a metallic blue;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">its head in a reddish brown</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and the belly is dazzling white.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">De volgende stoere houding past daar ook goed bij:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A reward for our waiting: it shows itself completely.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>... or right ...</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mei in de Kalahari. We zijn verbaasd hoeveel groen we nog zien (en felgekleurde bloemetjes hier en daar). Dat jaar is er meer water dan anders. De nacht ervoor lagen we in de tent en hoorden: drup ... drup ... Voor Nederlanders een heel bekend geluid, maar hier keken we er vreemd van op!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nog redelijk vroeg in de ochtend kwamen we hier aanrijden en zagen eekhoorns op de weg staan, kennelijk op de uitkijk. In een houding zoals we kennen van stokstaartjes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ook al is het dat jaar vochtiger dan anders, de grond is hier natuurlijk droog en keihard. Lijkt me een hele klus voor deze eekhoorns om hier holen te graven. De holen zijn ondergronds met elkaar verbonden door gangen; vaak zijn het hele burchten. Ze leven in kolonies bij elkaar; er zijn kolonies van vrouwtjes met jonkies en andere met mannetjes. Het was ook duidelijk te zien dat ze het onderling goed met elkaar konden vinden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deze kudu is echter niet de held van het verhaal. Een soortgenoot was de klos, ofwel...het ontbijt. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The picture above shows a kudu. These are rather tall, very beautiful antelopes. Usually very shy, they hide between the bushes. This is a male, because only a male kudu has these terrific long, circled horns.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This kudu however, is not the hero of this story. A congener was the victim or ... breakfast. We could recognise it by these beautiful horns. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Het was juli, vroeg in de ochtend in Ruaha NP; onze gamedrive begon langs de rivier. Er was dat jaar veel te weinig regen gevallen en de waterstand in de Ruaha was erg laag voor de tijd van het jaar. Daardoor ontstonden er zandbanken langs de oevers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onze gids had radiocontact; daarna werd gericht gezocht. Na korte tijd kwamen we op een plek waar al twee andere safariwagens stonden. We konden niet op een ideale plek gaan staan, maar met wat moeite konden we om de beurt vanuit de zijkant van de auto naar beneden kijken. Zo'n twee meter lager was op een smal stukje zand een leeuw aan zijn ontbijt bezig. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In eerste instantie konden we alleen de achterkant bekijken en die was niet zo fraai meer. Waarschijnlijk is hij daar eens flink getroffen door een buffel (heb ik niet zelf bedacht; deze info komt van de gids). Zijn eetlust was er niet minder om.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Al na korte tijd hadden de mensen in de andere jeeps er blijkbaar genoeg van, want zij vertrokken. Mazzel voor ons! Nu hadden we ruimte genoeg om op een gunstig plekje te gaan staan, zodat we de leeuw ook van de voorkant konden zien. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zij hadden waarschijnlijk ook wel trek, maar moesten rustig afwachten tot mijnheer genoeg gegeten had. Vooral de welpen waren heel beweeglijk, wat weer reacties opriep van de dames leeuw, natuurlijk. Ze lagen dan weer even hier, dan even daar en liepen aan alle kanten om de auto heen. Wij wilden, dat we ogen (en camera's) van voor, van achter en opzij hadden; aan alle kanten was wat te zien!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De oude leeuw nam even een slokje drinken tussendoor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aan de overkant lag de jongere leeuw nog steeds verveeld te kijken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dus als de kudu hier omlaag was gegaan voor een slokje water, kon hij werkelijk geen enkele kant meer op toen er leeuwen kwamen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, een zwemmende leeuw. Hoe bijzonder is dat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Een uitgelezen moment voor een batterij in je camera, die zegt: en nu doe ik 't echt niet meer!!! Bijzonder stom van mij natuurlijk, want het lampje knipperde al geruime tijd. Maar er was steeds zoveel te zien. Nou ja - ik heb nog nooit zó snel een batterij verwisseld en was klaar voor hij overgestoken was. De volgende foto's waren te haastig genomen, maar hier kan je zien dat hij een stuk verderop de overkant bereikt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Wow, a swimming lion. How special. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">En daarna? Hier maar even rustig liggen.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the cups had a lot of guts... Hij dared to reach the food and...took some bites!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>...he paused a moment and looked around...and saw what the little one did.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Immediately he stroke his leg, but little one was gone already. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Perhaps this made him think of the lionesses. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toch was onze verrassing groot, toen we tegen het middaguur bij deze droge rivierbedding aankwamen. De rivier stond vol...met groepen olifanten!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ik had er wel eens van gehoord, dat olifanten naar water kunnen graven, maar dit nooit eerder in een film gezien. We zagen dat ze met hun slurf graven en hier dus water omhoog haalden! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Het mooiste vogeltje van Afrika: de lilac breasted roller of in het Nederlands: vorkstaartscharrelaar. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Niet echt tot de verbeelding sprekende namen en bovendien: een mond vol. Binnen onze familie hebben we haar een wat frivolere naam gegeven: Lola - vonden we beter passen bij zo'n mooie, kokette vogel. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most beautiful bird in Africa: the lilac breasted roller. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This name is rather long and somewhat ordinary for this very beautiful and coquettish bird, so at home we nicknamed it Lola. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Het is de nationale vogel van Kenya én Botswana. Een kleine vogel - ca. 30 cm zonder de staart - en komt algemeen voor in het Oosten en Zuiden van Afrika. We zijn haar op alle drie onze reizen tegengekomen. En waren iedere keer weer even enthousiast, want het is een bijzondere verschijning. Ongetwijfeld de meest veelkleurige vogel die we ooit gezien hebben.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">En ik noem "haar" Lola, maar dit gaat net zo goed over de heren. Er zijn geen uiterlijke verschillen tussen man en vrouw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It is the national bird of both Kenya and Botswana. A small bird - approx. 30 cm without the tail - and is rather common in the easter and southern parts of Africa. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We have seen it on all our visits and were allways excited to see this special creature. Undoubtably the most shades of colour we've ever seen in one bird. Male and female are equally beautiful - they are alike in coloration.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zoals de engelse naam al aangeeft, heeft ze een lila borst. En verder bijna alle kleuren van de regenboog: buik en delen van de vleugels een prachtig turquoise, in de vleugels ook nog lichter blauw, kobalt blauw, donkerblauw. Een cremekleurig gezicht met een bruine streep langs haar ogen en lichtbruine plekken aan de zijkant van haar hoofd. Bovenkant en nek zijn groenig. De rug is soms cremekleurig, zoals deze (waarschijnlijk nog erg jong): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Besides its lilac breast it has almost all the colours of the rainbow: a turquoise belly and wings in light blue, royal blue, dark blue; green on top of its head. Its face creamy with a darkbrown line and some lighter brown spots at the side of its head. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Its back is very lightcoloured like the one here (probably a young one):</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">maar meestal een mooie bruine tint:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>but mostly a beautifull brown:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">En hier is het groenig:<i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And here it is green:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dit was de enige keer dat we haar op de grond aantroffen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ze wilde wel extra mooi poseren hier:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We only saw it on the ground once. It liked to strike an attitude for us then:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meestal zie je haar alleen, rustig zittend op een kale tak of bovenin een rietstengel, vanwaar ze de omgeving goed kan bekijken. Ze zoekt dan naar prooi op de grond: sprinkhanen, kevers, krabbetjes. Als ze zo rustig zit, valt ze goed te fotograferen. Vaak neemt ze een zeer fotogenieke houding aan. Je ziet haar dan ook veel terug in reclames voor safarireizen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> When not in breeding season, they are very solitair, so you mostly see one at the time. They perch on a dead tree or on top of reed, on the lookout for prey they take from the ground: grasshoppers, beetles, crabs. Sitting there so quitely, it is a very photogenic object. Its picture is often used for advertising safari's.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maar ze zit natuurlijk niet altijd zo rustig. Gaat ze bewegen, dan is ze ook supersnel. Foto's tijdens de vlucht zijn niet zo makkelijk te maken. Extra leuk, als dat dan toch een beetje wil lukken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But of course...it's not allways sitting so quitely. When it moves, it moves fast! So, taking pictures of this bird flying is not so easy. I'm very happy to have managed these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One more close-up before we say goodbye to Lola:</span></div>
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