25 January 2024: Day 7, Hwange Nationwide Park, Zimbabwe — Highway Pupil Southern Africa Birding Safari. Click on right here to look (normally) the place I’m lately.
On Throw Again Thursday.
The Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori) is a big flooring fowl local to Africa that forages via strolling alongside and again and again poking it’s beak to the bottom. The male of this species can weigh greater than 44 kilos and is reputed to be the heaviest fowl that’s in a position to fly.
The men use courtship presentations to draw and breed with as many ladies as imaginable, then take no section in elevating the younger. Dancing and neck puffing are one of the most many tips they use to draw the women.
I’ve sought after to look this fowl since 2009 once I discovered they tip the scales for flying birds. My easiest likelihood could also be at Chobe Nationwide Park, Botswana in 3 days time (28 January).
Hands crossed that I’ll see him whilst I’m right here. He doesn’t even need to fly for me to be enthralled!
In finding out why he’s on the best restrict of flying birds on this antique 2009 article.