10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
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. Lodge provided the frontispiece for Part II).
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Yellow-billed Stork portrait (note the pink flush indicating breeding status), Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania by Adam Riley The Yellow-billed Stork has a closely-related sister species in Asia known as Painted Stork. They are often found roosting in small groups along the edges of lakes and riverine sandbars.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Plastic behaviors are not automatically unrelated to natural selection, but the way those behaviors vary across individuals or across groups may not be best explained by underlying genetic differences. My research in the Congo supports this idea. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
These charismatic, colorful and finely formed birds are favorites amongst birders from experts to novices, and lie within the group of birds whose beauty even non-birders really appreciate. Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding.
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.
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. Most importantly the Upper Guinea forests, one of Africa’s two major rainforest regions (the other being the far more extensive Lower Guinea forests of the Congo basin and surrounding areas). And wow, what a trip we had!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2019
In the back of the book are three indexes, scientific and English names, Thai bird names and bird groups listed alphabetically. It remains restricted to those groups where absolutely necessary (raptors, gulls, etc.), Oddly, not many species are shown in flight. No one is visiting the first and it will remain so for a while at least.
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