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...
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...
“There is, perhaps, no better place in the world for birds than this country. Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel...
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...
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...
My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (843 species recorded to date) it...
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...
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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