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Review: “A Guide to the Birds of East Africa - A Novel”
Nicholas Drayson
The summer holidays are coming (for some of us anyway) and perhaps you’re thinking about a book to read “on the beach” or in the hammock at home? If you are - and even if you’re not - I’d like to recommend [...]

Sharpe’s Longclaw Macronyx sharpei
Magumu (north of Nairobi), Kenya. June 2008
 
Occasionally I get a ’sharp’ reminder that while I’m flying around the world having a great time and building up a reasonable year-list, some of the very birds that I’m fortunate enough to go looking for are declining rapidly and are seemingly heading unstoppably towards [...]

I’m just back from a superb two days birding in Cape Town, South Africa (just two days? For those who don’t know I work for an airline - I come, I go, what can I say…) with Brian Vanderwalt. It’s going to take me the best part of next week to work through all the [...]

I’m back home after a quick visit to Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city. No doubt on reading that I’ve just been to Kenya, some readers will assume that - as I’ve already been to Japan, Florida, and northern India this year - my Big Year list must be somewhere over 1000 by now. If only [...]

 
Organisation: African Bird Club http://www.africanbirdclub.org
 
Who are we? The African Bird Club is a UK registered charity formed in 1992 for people with a common interest in African ornithology. The Club covers the following geographic region: Continental Africa; Indian Ocean islands west of 80° east, e.g. Madagascar, Mascarene islands and Socotra; Atlantic Ocean on [...]

Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
Nairobi, Kenya, June 2006

The range of the Grey Crowned Crane in eastern and southern Africa stretches from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Kenya to southeastern South Africa. They are non-migratory, but undertake variable local and seasonal movements, and are most abundant in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The South African [...]

Little Swifts Apus affinis
Luanda, Angola 28 May 2005
 
The following photographs were taken from the roof of the Meridien Hotel, Luanda in the late afternoon as a group of about twenty Little Swifts appeared out of nowhere and began hawking over the centre of the city some distance from me. Many of the photos are highly-cropped [...]

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 [...]