It is in Kafue that two of Zambia's most precious birds have been spotted.

BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

The government rejected an offer from a South African-Canadian-American-British consortium known as Kafue.

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Hotels have booked up around prime viewing locations, including the capital Lusaka, the Luangwa game reserve and Kafue National Park.

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Southern Kafue is also one of the few places in the word to spy the colourful black-cheeked lovebird, also listed as vulnerable.

BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

Most people who do visit Kafue, located in the southern centre of the country, head to Busanga Plain in the north of the park.

BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

Despite being the largest national park in Zambia and the second largest in Africa (after Mudumu National Park in Namibia), Kafue National Park is not well known.

BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

But by the time I left, she had regained most feeling in her leg, though she still has a long way to go before she can be released into Kafue.

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The residents, for instance, of Kafue, an industrial town that once bustled with workers at its textile and nitrogen factories, now talk of unemployment, the cost of sending children to school and stinking garbage.

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Travelling with professionals like Wildside Tours, which has an extensive range of eco-friendly excursions and programmes targeting Kafue, will ensure that your eyes stay peeled for fish eagles, spoonbills and herons, among many others.

BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

Part of the somewhat neglected southern stretch of Kafue National Park, though, is dominated by Lake Itezhi-Tezhi, an inland sea created by the dammed Kafue River that has given rise to superbly scenic, land- and water-based wildlife-watching experiences.

BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild