Spectrus Drawing on Africa

The 'biggies' 

  · Buffalo
  · Elephants
  · Hippos

Predators

  · Cheetahs
  · Hyaenas
  · Leopards
  · Lions
  · More Lions
  · Wild Dogs

Antelopes

  · Bushbuck
  · Eland
  · Gerenuk
  · Hartebeest
  · Impala
  · Oryx
  · Kudu
  · Topi
  · Waterbuck
  · Wildebeest

The Rest

  > Birds

  · Baboons
  · Genet
  · Giraffe
  · Monkeys
  · Zebra
  · More Zebra

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Sketches of some birds of East Africa

Not to scale!
Sketch of Bohm's Bee-eater at nest - 9Kb Bohm's Bee-eater sketch - 10Kb

Böhm's Bee-eater at nest, Selous NP

Böhm's Bee-eater
Sketch of Harrier Hawk, aka Gymnogene - 8Kb Sketch of Lappet-faced Vulture, fka Nubian Vulture - 9Kb

African Harrier Hawk, or Gymnogene
Polyboroides typus

Lappet-faced Vulture
Torgos tracheliotus
Sketch of Pied Kingfisher and Bee-eaters - 20Kb Pratincole sketch- 3588 bytes

Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis,
Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
and Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii (in outline).
See the development of the Bee-eater drawing

Collared Pratincole
Glareola Pratincola
Drawn in Amboseli NP
Sketch of Wattled Plover - 10Kb Pencil drawing of Ostrich - 8Kb

African Wattled Plover Vanellus senegallus, Selous NP.
Hippo with reflection in background.

Masai Ostrich Struthio camellus
Definitely not to scale!

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