Favorite Botswana Photos 2012

Tom Davis


Last updated: October 5, 2012
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These are my dozen best photos. Click here for a complete set of Botswana photos.

You can click on any of the thumbnails below to obtain a larger version. The thumbnails are of quite low quality to make this page load faster; the quality of the larger versions is quite high.

Leopard [Panthera pardus]



Lion [Panthera leo]



Bateleur [Terathopius ecaudatus]



African Fish-Eagle [Haliaeetus vocifer]



Little Bee-eater [Merops pusillus]



Pel's Fishing-Owl [Scotopelia peli]

One of the main reasons that birders visit the Xigera camp is to see this bird. We were incredibly lucky and found it within the first two hours of arriving. We went back to the site the next day and found three birds: two adults and a juvenile. Photos of those three birds appear below.



Golden Weaver [Ploceus xanthops]



Lilac-breasted Roller [Coracias caudatus]



Chacma Baboon [Papio ursinus]

We were watching a large group of baboons when suddenly one of the larger males started beating up on a smaller individual. In this photo, we see how baboons are just like many humans: when one is doing violence to another, all the rest just sit and watch.



Leopard [Panthera pardus]

Here's a nice shot of mom plus cub.



Lion cub [Panthera leo]



White-backed Vulture [Gyps africanus]



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