10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
When was the last time you chose a book by its covers? In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2015
The Handbooks suggests that they may represent a basal lineage of the family, but I haven’t seen any more on this in the intervening years since the book was published. They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
The Python Caves, as you’ll recall since you certainly read my article (and in some cases actually did, and even told me so and bought the book!) The latter species is now nearly an Albertine endemic, as the region of western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DR Congo is an area high in interesting endemics. The Python Caves.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2019
Yet, by its very concept – main text tucked in the back of the book, no maps but textual descriptions of bird ranges – this book belongs to another era and the time was ripe for the new field guide. The book was written by Thai authors Uthai Treesucon and Wich’yanan Limparungpatthanakij and illustrated by 30 different artists.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Among others, he edited The Important Bird Areas of South Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa. What is it that I do not like about this book? 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.
Critter News
MARCH 29, 2009
Two of my favorite issues are chimpanzees threatened in labs and mountain gorillas threatened in the Congo. Let's combine the two and look at chimpanzees threatened in the Congo. Poachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) threaten the existence of the largest remaining continuous population of chimpanzees in the world.
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