Well. Just when I thought I'd be spending a lazy day in the capital...
I found myself, instead, on a birding adventure at NARREC — a non-profit organization whose primary focus is to provide professional care and rehabilitation facilities for injured, orphaned and misplaced wildlife in order to facilitate their release back into the wild.
We showed up a little later than we anticipated.. According to the directions on their site, take every unmarked left... They meant all but the third (fourth?) one, one could assume, as we found ourselves in the hills at a dead end originally.
There are a host of birds currently at the centre; among them, various eagles, falcons, vultures, owls, parrots, as well as a number of mammals and reptiles... My favorites were two birds in particular. One, an injured White-backed Vulture, was a sweetie that would swoop over to the fence for a nuzzle. The second, a rescued African Grey Parrot, was capable of throwing its voice to sound as if it was speaking Afrikaans, which was a little jarring at first. Ek praat nie Afrikaans nie. But then we realized he was just trying to convince us to stay longer at their enclosure. I admit, I'm a sucker and stayed for a while with this last flirt. There may have been an Eskimo kiss or two.. Nose to beak. He was a spunky bugger. I considered thievery briefly.
Visiting Windhoek? Check out the
NARREC site for more information. Also, more
here.
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| White-backed Vulture | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
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| Cricket or Grasshopper? | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
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| Black Eagle | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
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| African Grey Parrot | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
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| Flora | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
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| Deceased Fauna | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
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| King of the Ants | NARREC | Windhoek, Namibia |
