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Bill Gette, Founding Director of Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center, led two natural history travel adventures to Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Okavango is a vast inland river delta in northwestern Botswana. This area floods seasonally forming a rich, grassy plain that supports large numbers of mammals and birds. It’s a spectacular place to visit.

Bill will take you on a PowerPoint virtual expedition through the delta with stops at several wilderness lodges: Xigera, Banoka Bush Camp, and Duma Tau Camp. From the camps, we will take boats and safari vehicles to view the abundant wildlife.

Among the mammal predators Bill will discuss include Lion, Black-backed Jackal, Wild Dog, Cheetah, and Nile Crocodile. Grazing mammals Bill will highlight include Lechwe, Greater Kudu, Giraffe, Impala, Common Zebra, and Brindled Gnu.

Colorful birds, of course, are always a major feature of the Okavango Delta. Bill will show you his photograps of White-backed Vulture, Lilac-breasted Roller, Little Bee-eater, Red-billed Spurfowl, Trumpeter Hornbill, Kori Bustard, and Gray Go-away-bird.

At the end of his presentation, he will take you on a brief visit to Victoria Falls.

This program is part of a series of presentations by Bill Gette that includes these events:

Thursday, May 16, 7pm, Crossing Bhutan - The Kingdom in the Clouds, Land of Dragons

Monday, June 17, 7pm, In the Wake of Sir Ernest Shackleton - The Wildlife of the Antarctic Ocean and Islands

Thursday, July 11, 7pm, Botswana: Exploring the Okavango Delta

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