The boat glided slowly down the Okavango River; and suddenly this bird was there, in a glade in the reeds, a Water thick-knee. In the picture, you can clearly see the double-folded legs and somehow also get a glimpse of the streaked plumage of the upper side - which clearly distinguishes it from the relative, the Spotted thick-nee (Burhinus capensis), which of course is spotted where this bird is streaked. The question of who was more surprised than the other - the bird or I - as we came so close, is hard to decide ...