What is your favorite bird species? Rockrunner,  a Namibian near endemic   What is your name, and where do...

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding...

For several years I lived and birded in the south of Africa, and still have my battered second edition...

What happens when you put a naturalist in a kayak, adrift in Africa? ‘There are no crocs around here,’...

While much of the attention that Africa’s tourism industry gets is for its (deservedly) popular national parks and game...

Who doesn’t love a good owl? There are few families of birds where despite a cosmopolitan distribution I’m always...

Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999 Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at...

I’ve never been one to be overly concerned about whether a bird “counts”. People, and organisations, have complex and...