1049 A Nile monitor hides in the riverside bushes

1050 A giant kingfisher by the river bank

1051 A striated heron on a raft of floating vegetation

1052 During the day the white-fronted bee-eater leaves the nest site to hunt insects in the bush

1053 A pied kingfisher outside its nest burrow

1054 A Nile crocodile on the move

1055 The hammerkop is considerd to be magical or a bird of ill omen and so is seldom persecuted

1056 Possibly this is a brown-hooded kingfisher

1057 Another shot of the brown-hooded kingfisher?

1058 The geat white egret is a common sight on the banks of the Rufiji

1059 This small island in Lake Nzerakera serves as a nest site for hundreds of birds of various types

1060 The goliath heron stands up to 152cm tall, the World's biggest heron

1061 During the breeding season the white of the yellow-billed stork takes on a pinkish hue

1062 The bright red eye helps to identify this as a black-crowned night heron

1063 An African darter feeding its chicks in a very precarious nest

1064 Open-billed storks with chicks of various sizes, not all in the same nest

1065 An ever watchful crocodile always ready to take any chic that is unlucky enough to fall out of its nest

1066 This is possibly an intermediate egret. The larger chic will almost certainly eject the smaller one from the nest

1067 The sacred ibis is very common

1068 Lovely markings on the Nile monitor

1069 Water Thick-knees

1070 White-fronted bee-eaters at their nest hole

1071 The heronry in Lake Nzerakera

1072 The African spoonbill is easy to identify