Fischer’s Pan birding can change dramatically when seasonal water is present. A dry, pale expanse may become a shallow wetland with waders, waterfowl and other birds spread across a broad edge. The spectacle depends on rainfall and access, so flexibility is the most important item in the birding kit. Fischer’s Pan lies in the eastern […]
To understand why the Etosha Pan is dry, start with its shape. The pan occupies a broad, shallow, closed depression. Water can spread across parts of it after good rain, but it has no normal outlet to the sea and loses water rapidly to evaporation in northern Namibia’s hot, semi-arid climate. That creates the landscape […]
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