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South Africa is one of the top birding destinations in the world, offering an unbeatable variety of birds and a user-friendly avi-tourism industry ...
Hoopoe feeding its young
Cape Gannets on Bird Island
Greater kestrel
Helmeted guineafowl

African spoonbill
Barn owl
African marsh harrier
Crowned crane

Cape sugarbird
Darter drying its wings
African jacana
Masked weaver

Green pigeon
Thick-billed weaver
Blue crane
Malachite kingfisher

Blue waxbill
Black eagle
Hadeda ibis
Crested barbet

White-faced owl
Dikkop
Paradise flycatcher
Black-shouldered kite

Ostrich
Black korhaan
Lilac breasted roller
Goliath heron

Malachite sunbird
Marabou stork
Carmine bee eaters
Green twinspot

Knysna loerie
Pied kingfisher
Secretary bird
A bateleur eagle in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape

Flamingos
Yellow-billed hornbill
Orange-breasted sunbird
Bearded vultures in the Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal

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