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My second day-trip to Nigeria this year (the first gave me a very good morning’s birding in Abuja in July) took me to the huge coastal city of Lagos. One of Africa’s most densely-populated cities with about 8 million inhabitants Lagos is built on several islands in the Lagos Lagoon - which basically means to [...]

A friend of mine, Jo Sievers, has just sent me two photos of an unusual Cattle Egret which he took near Lagos, Nigeria the day after I’d been there birding with him (more about which soon). Taken along a coastal road east of Lagos, the photos show what looks very like a Cattle Egret Bubulcus [...]

Lagos, Nigeria
29 September 2006

The entrance to the Lagos Botanic Gardens…

A very interesting morning spent with ex-pat Jo Sievers in the (rather odd, it has to be said) Lagos Botanic Gardens - a ramshackle, vanity project hacked out of the bush some 100km east of Lagos in memory of Murtala Muhammed and now slowly and inevitably [...]

Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
Nairobi, Kenya. June 2006
 
The Little Bee-eater is a locally common resident in the highlands of East Africa (Nairobi is situated at 1660 metres (5450 feet) above sea level), south to Malawi and Zambia. It occurs in highland forest, forest margins, and scrub: in Nairobi the Little Bee-eater is a familiar bird in [...]

 
Lekki Conservation Center, Lagos, Nigeria
18 June 2005.

Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and, with its population of 13.4 million (2000), one of the largest in Africa (second only to Cairo, Egypt) - the population is expected to reach 24 million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. [...]

Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Lagos, Nigeria. December 2004
 
The Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis is a very widepsread species found from southern Europe (increasingly it looks like it may be well on its way to permanently colonising Britain) to Japan, throughout most of Africa, is increasingly rapidly thoughout Canada and the US (from its initial foray into the [...]

Lagos, Nigeria
29 February 2004.
 
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and, with its population of 13.4 million (2000), one of the largest in Africa (second only to Cairo, Egypt) - the population is expected to reach 24 million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. Lagos was the [...]