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).

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

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.

Central African Republic 282

Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 282

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

Ghana 189

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

Nyungwe is also a place that offers the best birding in the Albertine Rift Endemic Bird Area, apart from the out-of-bounds sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1). Best timing here is the dry season, June to September, when most birds are breeding (3). Red-collared Mountain Babbler in Nyungwe by Gael Vande Weghe.

Rwanda 208

Rwanda Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Costa Rica 208

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Out of 452 pages, a ‘dead weight’ are just 50 pages of rather informative introductory chapters, plus indexes, while the ‘active’ field guide covers 402 pages. 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.

Thailand 183

Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 183