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There are some more elephant pictures in the pipeline, but in the interim I offer this landscape just to show you what it's like without any animal to distract you. The other pictures may make it look cloudy, but it was actually, as weather forecasters here put it, "a mix of clouds and sun". Frankly, more sun than clouds.
And you can also see that the northern Mara is a bit different a landscape to its more-visited southern neighbor ... more diverse plant life, and a bit less gently rolling terrain.
Cross-uploaded to Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Mara_savanna_lan...
Very old stuff. A scan of a slide taken with my analogue T60 without AF. Over time the slide has lost some of its quality, so the scan is not technically top. Still a nice memory.
The Southern White Rhino is Near Threatened according to IUCN on their Red LIst, and in Kenya mostly exist in well protected preserves. Their closest relative, the Northern White Rhino is essentially extinct because of poaching.
Kenyan 5688 arriving from Nairobi with President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend the COP26 Climate Conference.
Kenyan Airways
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
5Y-KZD
Glasgow AIrport, Scotland
31st October 2021
Kenya
Numerous documentaries feature wildebeest crossing rivers, with many being eaten by crocodiles or drowning in the attempt.
While having the appearance of a frenzy, recent research has shown a herd of wildebeest possesses what is known as a "swarm intelligence", whereby the animals systematically explore and overcome the obstacle as one.
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The Kenya sparrow, also known as the Kenya rufous sparrow (Passer rufocinctus) is a sparrow found in Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savannah and agricultural areas.
This is a common seed eater in Kenya highland farms, orchards, savanna and urban settings. They often forage on the soil for seeds as well as scraps of food dropped by people. Insects form a major part of the diet, particularly during nesting. Although there are many kinds of small brownish birds this one can be reasonably recognized by the rufous and gray head, the black throat patch, and the pale eyes. The female lacks extensive rufous (reddish brown) colour in the plumage, but retains the pale eyes.
The Beautiful Sparrow is a lifer and was photographed early in the morning on a game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya