For the birds, pictures worth a million words

Words simply cannot describe what our #IBMCSC #Senegal team experienced this past Saturday on the second leg of our weekend jaunt up to St. Louis, the former capital of West Africa.  From St. Louis, we continued northwest along the Senegal River, which creates a natural border between Senegal and Mauritania, to Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, a 16,000 hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site and the third largest bird sanctuary in the world. 

Every year following the rainy season, the overflowing Senegal river creates a massive wetlands that is otherwise crawling with crocodiles and warthogs.  But when it turns into a lush oasis, it also becomes the temporary home to 1.5 million birds escaping the cool autumn winds in Europe, including white pelicans, purple herons, African spoonbills (aka snakebirds for their long snake-like necks), great egrets and cormorants.  Birds fill the skies and trees, while fish literally jumped into our boat as we navigated the backwaters of these expansive wetlands.

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