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Pheasant-tailed Jacana courtship dance

April 23, 2012 by Adam Riley 5 Comments

Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east...

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Africa’s Barbets

April 10, 2012 by Adam Riley 8 Comments

Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics. They...

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KwaZulu-Natal

March 13, 2012 by Adam Riley 13 Comments

“There is, perhaps, no better place in the world for birds than this country. Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel...

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Ethiopia’s Endemics

February 14, 2012 by Adam Riley 31 Comments

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Only twenty years...

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

January 10, 2012 by Adam Riley 11 Comments

The family Picathartidae consists of two very unusual birds; White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa; and Gray-necked...

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South Africa’s endemic birds

December 13, 2011 by Adam Riley 11 Comments

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (843 species recorded to date) it...

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Madagascar’s Lost and Found

November 8, 2011 by Adam Riley 14 Comments

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. This is...

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

October 11, 2011 by Adam Riley 12 Comments

Tanzania is without a doubt the quintessential African safari nation. Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in...

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