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Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
Abuja, Nigeria. July 2008
Coucals are large members of the cuckoo family, with eleven representatives in Africa. The Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis ranges right across Africa from the Gambia to northern Sudan, with a separate population spread over a wide area of southern Africa. It’s a bird of grassy habitats with trees, such [...]

Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
Abuja, Nigeria. July 2008

A West African endemic Oriole Warblers breed from southern Senegal to Cameroon and north Zaire (Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d’Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/52393/all). The Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps [...]

Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus
Abuja, Nigeria. July 2008

The Pale Flycatcher (once also known as Mouse-coloured Flycatcher) is a widespread and locally common bird found from West to South Africa in many moist wooded habitats. A typical Bradornis the Pale Flycatcher can appear somewhat chat-like and often feeds by hunting from an open perch and dropping to [...]

Pretty well, thanks for asking (and, yes, that is the best line I can come up with after just thirty minutes sleep and six hours wandering around a park in Nigeria, sorry).

I have to say I was really looking forward to this trip. My Year List has been idling rather than surging ahead (Graham has [...]

Abuja, Nigeria
15 August 2006
 
A historical note (which may - or may not - be of interest):
I imagine anyone with a radio, tv, or with internet access will know of the ‘alleged’ bomb threat that has ground the UK’s major airports to a standstill this past week, and I guess anyone reading this might expect me [...]

African Thrush Turdus pelios
Abuja, Nigeria. 15 August 2006

The African Thrush Turdus pelios is a highly variable and taxonomically contentious species found right across central Africa, with perhaps future splits in the offing. Nigerian birds are extremely plain: Clement and Hathaway (in Thrushes Helm, 2000) recognise six races, and the one in central Nigeria would appear [...]

Abuja, Nigeria
11 December 2004.
 
At about 1200′ above sea-level, Abuja officially replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria in December 1991 after 15 years of planning and construction.
The city is located in a scenic valley of rolling grasslands in a relatively [sic] undeveloped, ethnically neutral area. Thus, planners hoped to create a national city [...]