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Jabiru Stork or Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), Jabiru. Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.

Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis), Ibis tantale. Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.

Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus), Guêpier nain. Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.

Some may be hesitating slightly when they are told the exact name of this large bird. Isn’t it a hoax or a word play? But ornythologists love these names as complicated, as tortured as they come in Wattled Crane, without even listening to the sound and considering only yhe precise description of the brightly-coloured flesh…

Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010. Coppery-tailed Coucal (Centropus cupreicaudus), Coucal des papyrus.