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. And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2015
Once upon a time, when I started birding, this great family included a wide range of species collectively known as the robins and chats. They are a single genus, Cichladusa , with three species, found mostly in Central and Eastern Africa. It all comes back to a split in one of the great bird families, the Turdidae, or thrushes.
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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!) This means it has different species, and adds to the biological diversity of the park. The Python Caves. And then there’s the bats.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2019
Perhaps you don’t know it yet, but with more than 1000 bird species, palm-fringed sandy beaches, developed tourism infrastructure, moderate prices and political stability, Thailand is a country you definitively want to visit. Among them are 20 endemics and near-endemics, and 58 vagrant species. And what do you need to pack?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Slightly larger than Wales and about the size of the US state of Maryland, this country’s lure is its 703 bird species and three dozen Albertine Rift endemics among them. 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?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.
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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