10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl. When was the last time you chose a book by its covers?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Of course, there is more war in the Congo. Tags: virunga africa gorilla war congo. Always, always, war. And the mountain gorillas are once again vulnerable. The rebels have taken over the wildlife rangers' headquarters and the gorillas are unprotected. Unless they flee to the Rwandan side of the forest, they may die.

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Critter News

JANUARY 27, 2009

Surprisingly, the mountain gorillas have prospered under the rule of the Congo rebels. Tags: global warming virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. In contrast, the 2007 murders of 10 gorillas occurred under the Congolese government's control.

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Gorillas Congo Endangered Species 2007 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It’s six weeks to the day till I go to Africa, and of late conversations about the subject have taken a reliable and predictable detour. ” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. There will be outbreaks like the one happening in Africa, we can’t control that.

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Humane Animal Africa Ukraine 164

Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2008

This situation sounds a lot like the the mountain gorillas, the Congo and Virunga National Park. Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savannah elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, have crashed to just 1,000 animals from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Tags: ivory chad africa poaching elephants.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

Explore the forests of Africa as you follow an adorable young chimp named Oscar. Not only will you get a chance to see an amazing film, but for every moviegoer who sees the film in the opening week, Disneynature will make a donation to the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)! The film opens in North America on April 20, 2012.

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Congo 2012 North America Africa 100

Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas.

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Gorillas Congo Africa Groups 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species.

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Gorillas Congo Endangered Species Africa 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Tags: virunga africa gorilla congo endangered species.

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Gorillas Congo Endangered Species 2007 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding.

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Africa Gabon South Africa Uganda 265

Critter News

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas.

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Gorillas Congo 2007 Africa 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Pafuri lies in the northernmost part of the Kruger National Park and is described as “some of the most potentially productive birding territory in South Africa” on the SANParks website. It is the heaviest among the rollers in Africa. ” (HBW).

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

The Congo is one of the deepest rivers in the world with depths sometimes exceeding 220 meters (720 feet). The Congo Basin is 300,000 square miles (777,000 square kilometres) in size and its forests store 25 per cent of tropical forest carbon. million hectares of forest cover each year.

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 303

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I had planned to do another story today, but my laptop, sick of endless David Attenborough DVDs, Skyrim and searches of birding in South Africa made a break for it and took a swan dive off my bed. The park is one of the more spectacular in Africa, and long overdue a comprehensive post here. Egyptian Fruit Bats.

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Pythons Bats Uganda Burundi 191

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

They are a single genus, Cichladusa , with three species, found mostly in Central and Eastern Africa. They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya). They have been considered closest to the alethes, but even that relationship is tenuous.

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Mozambique Zambia Zimbabwe Namibia 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Christian Boix left his native Spain to become an ornithologist at the University of Cape Town and a tour guide for Tropical Birding, specialising in new destinations throughout Africa. Keith Barnes has birded Africa intensively for 30 years and has led tours on the continent for the last 15 years, after creating the company Tropical Birding.

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Rwanda Primates Wildlife Gorillas 217

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Of these 90, all occur in Africa bar 5 Asian and 2 Malagasy weavers. Photo taken by Adam Riley in South Africa. All occur in the Guinea-Congolese rainforests of Africa, with Red-headed being the most widespread. Image taken in South Africa by Adam Riley. Image taken by Adam Riley in South Africa.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

In his book The Birder’s Guide to Africa (3), Michael Mills noted not only differences in plumage (has white on a folded wing), but also voice and habitat choice, suggesting that the Albertine ssp. nehrkorni spreading all the way to West Africa). 3 The Birder’s Guide to Africa by Michael Mills.

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Rwanda Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Costa Rica 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Adam will be leading 10,000 Birds readers on an amazing odyssey into Africa starting… now! To the uninitiated, Africa conjures up images of underdevelopment, poverty and hardship. I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood.

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 233

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2010

A volcano near Virunga National Park has erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tags: natural disaster chimpanzees virunga africa congo gorillas.

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Critter News

JUNE 26, 2009

Dozens of animals have been killed by armed groups at Africa's oldest national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year, park officials and environmental groups said Tuesday. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. Lots of animals have died since the beginning of the year.

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Congo Gorillas Endangered Species Animal 100

Critter News

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Congolese National Park Authorities have sent the biggest ever deployment of armed rangers to strike at charcoal-making operations run by armed groups deep in the forests of Virunga National Park in Eastern DR Congo. Tags: virunga rwanda africa congo gorillas endangered species.

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Congo Rwanda Wildlife Gorillas 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

There are only two countries in Africa that are not covered by regional or a country guide, only by the overweight pan-African one: the DR Congo and Zambia. At that moment I didn’t know what to say and later haven’t found that page, so I haven’t answered. No one is visiting the first and it will remain so for a while at least.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 201

Critter News

MAY 22, 2009

The 2009 Year of the Gorilla (YoG) partnership is supporting a project enabling local residents in areas endangered by increasing demands for fuel – not least the Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – to buy low-cost, fuel-efficient stoves. Tags: virunga africa united nations environment gorillas.

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Gorillas Congo Africa 2009 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

Democratic Republic of Congo 1185 11. Yet, among them, DR Congo is burdened with its long lasting guerilla war and recently with an Ebola outbreak as well (both in the bird-richest east of the country), while Venezuela is in economic and political tailspin and you would be ill-advised to go there. Brazil 1847 sp. 3.

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Uganda Bolivia Ecuador Indonesia 258

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

They occur in three biogeographic regions; the Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Malaya ecozones, basically tropical South and Central America, Africa south of the Sahara and tropical Asia. The diminutive Tinkerbirds are Africa’s smallest barbets, depicted here is Red-fronted Tinkerbird photographed at Lalibela, Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 242

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

I got slightly sidetracked there, because I’ve been thinking about Africa quite a bit since last week’s post, particularly since it’s been a long time since I was there and long past the time I should have gone back. Lake Edward with the Congo behind. Lake Mburu. There is a lot of wildlife around the lodge.

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Uganda Congo Birds Africa 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2012

Giant Kingfisher – A fairly localised bird in Ghana Shining Blue Kingfisher – A speciality of forested rivers and can be found in Mole NP Then just as we thought there was time to draw our breath our ears were instead drawn to a rare gem indeed as our pulses race to the loud almost “meowing” call of a Congo Serpent Eagle.

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Ghana Guinea Birds Eagles 182