It's a wintery morning on the banks of the Limpopo River in the Kruger Park. A group of birders turn their heads from side to side as Duncan McKenzie rattles off yellowbreasted apalis, tropical boubou, African palm swift, grey-backed camaroptera, sombre greenbul, mottled spinetail…
Duncan is our bird guide on a threeday trip in the Makuleke concession in the Pafuri region in the north of the park, hosted by EcoTraining and BirdLife South Africa. He stands still, listening to bird calls in the bush, pointing in different directions as we try to get our binoculars to focus.
Duncan (44) is at home here in Makuleke, where he's been an EcoTraining instructor for years, in addition to his day job as an ecologist. He's also a trustee of the John Voelcker Bird Book
