Anyway, August is wintertime and though there were still tens of thousands of birds (mostly flamingos!), the famous salt pans at Walvis Bay were comparatively quiet - still, with White-fronted and Chestnut-banded Plovers in good numbers as well as a couple of Red-necked Phalaropes and Curlew Sandpipers, it wasn't all that bad!
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White-fronted Plover Walvis Bay |
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Chestnut-banded Plover Walvis Bay |
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Lesser Flamingo Walvis Bay |
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Greater Flamingo Walvis Bay |
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White Pelican Walvis Bay |
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Cape Cormorant Walvis Bay |
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copious numbers of Cape Fur Seals Walvis Bay |
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Cape Gannet Walvis Bay |
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Red-capped Lark between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund |
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Southern Masked Weaver Swakopmund |
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1st-winter Hartlaub's Gulls |
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adult Kelp Gull |
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1st-winter Kelp Gulls |