Crowned Hornbills

Vehicles closer than 2 kilometers from Treehouse Pan would have heard me and my Tracker Patrick yelling with excitement this morning as we shouted: “there’s Crowned Hornbills”. In eight years of guiding in this area I must confess that this is the first time I have seen Crowned Hornbills in the Western Sector Sabi Sands. I believe that they had been seen some years before, but are not very common. Today was one of the few times where people were asking for standbys on the radio for a bird. Some other rare birds seen of late include a White Backed-Night Heron, Mountain Wagtail and Black storks. Black storks being a special sighting as they are on the red data list of endangered animals due to habitat destruction.

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Paulsen, Date: 6 July 2008