Action stations: Natural fish traps in the Okavango

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In northern Botswana, the term fish trap is used to describe a section of the Okavango
River (or one of the many channels that flow from it and make up the delta) that becomes
separated from the permanent channel supplying it with water. When this happens, fish
can’t escape and become concentrated in shrinking channels and lagoons. As a result, a
glut of easy pickings attracts large feeding parties of different bird species.

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“African Dusky flycatchers”|”African Green Pigeons”|”African Stonechats”|”Black-bellied Glossy Starlings”|”Brimstone Canary”|”Bushveld Pipit”|”Crested Guineafowl”|”Dark Chanting Goshawks”|”Hooded Vultures”|”Hottentot Teal “|”Lesser Striped Swallows”|”Red-crested Bustard”|”Whiteeared Barbets”|accipiter|Adam Riley|African Cuckoo Hawk|Bateleur|Bennett’s Woodpeckers|BirdLasser Lockdown Challenge|Black Cuckooshrike|Black-rumped Buttonquail|Blue-mantled Crested Flycatchers|Cape Batises|Cape Rock Thrush|Common Buttonquails|Common Buzzard|COVID-19|Crowned Eagle|Dark-capped Bulbul|Diederik cuckoos|Eastern Nicator|ecotourism|Fiscal flycatchers|Gorgeous Bushshrike|Great White Pelican|Grey Waxbills|Jackal Buzzards|Klaas’s cuckoos|Lockdown|Magpie Shrike|Martial Eagle|Mocking Cliff Chat|Neergaard’s Sunbird|Ovambo|Pink-throated Twinspots|Plain-backed Pipit|Quailfinches|Red-headed Weaver|Rock Kestrel|Shelley’s Francolin|Striped Pipit|Trumpeter Hornbills|Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl|Violet-backed Starling|Wattled Starlings|Woodland Kingfisher