Category: Birds

  • Buffalo colourful airstrip

    Buffalo colourful airstrip

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  • Masai Mara – Hippopotamus

    Masai Mara – Hippopotamus

    Hippopotamus are large herbivorous from the same family as the horse. they seem quite peaceful but have a lot of available energy (and a considerable mass). Even if it is possible to encounter them out of water during the day, they prefer to avoid sun shine (they risk dying from sun exposure) and only eat…

  • Masai Mara – Grey heron

    Masai Mara – Grey heron

    Grey Heron, Mara river

  • Masai Mara – Birds, too

    Masai Mara – Birds, too

    The Masai Mara park hosts not only felines (I went there specially to watch them) and their preys (all kinds of antelopes), but also a large number of birds of all kinds. Travelling with Alain Saunier, reknowned ornithologist photographer, and with some other bird watchers allowed to stop and contemplate some very colourful (or less…