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Tanqua
Karoo Loop:
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'In
the desert
you have time to look everywhere, to theorise on the
choreography of
all
things around you.’
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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Visiting
birders with little time at their disposal need not despair
of seeing a good selection of the arid-country specialities
of the Karoo semidesert. The majority are easily accessible
within a day trip from Cape Town, and are set in some marvellous
Karoo landscapes to boot. The parched brown expanses, aloe-lined
escarpments and lonely isolated hills of the Tanqua Karoo provide
an apt setting for such fine and sought-after dry western endemics
as Karoo
Eremomela, Cinnamon-breasted
Warbler, Namaqua
Warbler and Fairy Flycatcher, among many others.
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Top
Birds
Karoo Korhaan, Karoo Lark,
Southern Grey Tit, Tractrac Chat, Layard’s
Titbabbler,
Karoo Eremomela,
Cinnamon-breasted Warbler,
Namaqua Warbler, Pririt Batis,
Fairy Flycatcher,
Black-headed and
Protea Canaries.
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