Birds

There are a number of dead trees in the park, because elephants really like the taste of bark, and sometimes they strip too much from a particular tree and it dies.  Birds then move in, and some of these dead trees have perches that are quite popular; you can tell because those favored spots are stained pure white.  The photo here with the large birds in a dead tree features large maribou storks.  The large number of birds in the field are also maribou starks out eating the giant african crickets (really, these crickets are the size of plums!).  We could hear the crickets singing around us as we watched the storks.