10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. Lodge provided the frontispiece for Part II).

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Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Wich’yanan graduated with a Master’s Degree in Biology and has been involved in a number of ornithological research projects in Thailand, as well as being a freelance guide. 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.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 180

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. One of these colonies has now been opened to tourism after researchers studying the birds deemed visits by birders to be non-disruptive. And wow, what a trip we had!

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 187