Esther's photos with the keyword: Sweetwaters

Sweetwaters Tented Camp Ol Pejeta Conservancy Kenya AIMG 5002

Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary - Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. Chimps are not native to Kenya. They arrived at the Sanctuary after the sanctuary in Burundi was closed due to civil war. LIMG 1405

View from Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy LIMG 1380

View from Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy LIMG 1374

View from Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy LIMG 1372

Maribou storks can grow up to 5 feet tall and weigh up to 20 pounds. They are scavengers and have grown accustomed to living near humans. They are known to eat almost anything. This bird allowed me to get relatively close. I probably could have gotten closer but his beak and his size were deterrents. LIMG 1368

Maribou storks can grow up to 5 feet tall and weigh up to 20 pounds. They are scavengers and have grown accustomed to living near humans. They are known to eat almost anything. This bird allowed me to get relatively close. I probably could have gotten closer but his beak and his size were deterrents. LIMG 1361

Maribou storks can grow up to 5 feet tall and weigh up to 20 pounds. They are scavengers and have grown accustomed to living near humans. They are known to eat almost anything. This bird allowed me to get relatively close. I probably could have gotten closer but his beak and his size were deterrents. SIMG 3093

Male impala at Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya LIMG 1354

Female impala and plains zebra at Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya LIMG 1351

Plains zebra at Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya LIMG 1350

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Purple breasted sunbird LIMG 1358

D'Arnaud's Barbet "D'Arnaud's barbet is a small East African bird that feeds on insects, fruits, and seeds. It grows to about eight inches, and is equally at home in trees or on the ground. A vertical tunnel two to three feet into the ground with a sideways and upward turn leads to the nest chamber. In a striking dance the male and female face each on nearby twigs and twitch, bob and sing like mechanical toys." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arnaud%27s_barbet LIMG 1347

"Venerated and often mummified by Ancient Egyptians as a symbol of the god Thoth, the ibis was, according to Herodotus and Pliny the Elder, also invoked against incursions of winged serpents. Herodotus wrote: There is a region moreover in Arabia, situated nearly over against the city of Buto, to which place I came to inquire about the winged serpents: and when I came thither I saw bones of serpents and spines in quantity so great that it is impossible to make report of the number, and there were heaps of spines, some heaps large and others less large and others smaller still than these, and these heaps were many in number. The region in which the spines are scattered upon the ground is of the nature of an entrance from a narrow mountain pass to a great plain, which plain adjoins the plain of Egypt; and the story goes that at the beginning of spring winged serpents from Arabia fly towards Egypt, and the birds called ibises meet them at the entrance of this country and do not suffer the serpents to go by but kill them. On account of this deed it is (say the Arabians) that the ibis has come to be greatly honored by the Egyptians, and the Egyptians also agree that it is for this reason that they honor these birds. In more mythical stories, it was also said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_sacred_ibis LIMG 1339