Safari wildlife of Botswana
There is no doubt that Botswana is about big game. It is plentiful, relaxed and superb for photography. Whilst game is present all over Northern Botswana you tend to get big concentrations in certain areas.
Chobe and Linyanti are particularly good for thousand strong herds of elephant and buffalo. All over the Delta and Linyanti you will find good lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted hyena and side-striped jackal whilst wild dogs – the world’s most endangered carnivore – are most often seen in the Selinda, Linyanti, Vumbura and Chitabe concessions. Antelope are prolific, with impala, zebra, wildebeest, kudu, and tsessebe easily sighted. Red lechwe tend to frequent the floodplains, reedbuck the wetlands and sitatunga, papyrus swamps. Giraffe, warthog and baboon are found everywhere.
Botswana’s birdlife is superb and mokoro trips offer excellent opportunities to photograph birds from close quarters. From the water you’re likely to see little bee-eaters, malachite and giant kingfishers, slaty and black egrets, lesser and purple gallinules and wattled cranes. There are Meyer’s parrots, fierynecked nightjars and Hueglin’s robin. From secretary birds to swallowtailed bee-eaters, you won’t be disappointed.