The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species,...

Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, experts have determined that the current rate of bird extinction is somewhere between...

Its a hard life being a bird but its especially hard if you’re a crane. Of the fifteen species...

Gaining independence in 1990, Namibia is one of Africa’s “newer” nations, although not quite as newborn as South Sudan...

I recently read What the Robin Knows by Jon Young and this book made a surprisingly substantial impression on...

Chris Townend is an ace birder, keen conservationist, and proprietor of Wise Birding Holidays, a UK company that leads...

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

Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. When he...