White-quilled Bustard ©Chris Conard
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In August 2023, Chris Conard joined a group largely composed of Sacramento-area birders to southern Africa. The birds were wonderful, and the mammals were absolutely mind-blowing. We moved east from the Namib Desert on the Atlantic Coast, through Etosha National Park, the Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls, with a single day in South Africa before heading home. Highlights are too many to catalog, but include a great diversity of hornbills, kingfishers, and shrikes in starkly beautiful settings, with a cavalcade of large mammals coming to and interacting at waterholes. Lions, leopard, 17 species of antelope, elephants, and both species of rhino jockeyed for first prize as most spectacular–the rhinos won!
SPEAKER BIO
Chris Conard is a Natural Resource Specialist at the Bufferlands in Sacramento County. He regularly leads field trips for Sacramento Audubon, serves as a county reviewer for eBird, and is a past president of the Central Valley Bird Club.
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