10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2022
The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups. Ngaga Camp’s (above) main draw is tracking the Western Lowland Gorilla (2 habituated groups out of 20 living in the area, time limited to 1 hour).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2012
Image by Adam Riley Rüppell’s Bustard Another noisy bird which is also found in small family groups, however, this species prefers lower lying, flatter and drier areas along the edge of the Namib Desert. This family group is performing their loud croaking territorial calls. This species is also known as Peach-faced Lovebird.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
One thing that had changed since my 2003 trip was that Rosy-faced Lovebird was on the ABA Checklist (and that I knew what that was). So, I flew into Phoenix, Lovebird Central, and three hours after I got off the plane had a lovebird in my binoculars, at Encanto Park. Now, years later, it was time to return.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
As The Mincing Mockingbird, Adrian has a distinctive, instantly recognizable idiom: birds (or occasionally eggs) portrayed singly or in small groups, often off-center and partially out of the frame, against stark monochromatic backgrounds. This is an art book, and the paintings deserve a bit more analysis here.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2013
This color also describes minivets, starlings, and thrush-tanagers, as well as the bill of a particular pochard, the face of a sweet little lovebird, and the patch and throat of a bush-shrike and longclaw respectively. Africa’s Rosy Bee-eater is vivid enough to burn your retina while the Rosy Pipit of Asia flaunts but a flush of pink.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Families that are endemic to the continent include such strange birds as Shoebill , Secretarybird , Hamerkop , mousebirds and rockfowl ( picathartes ) and delightful groups including bushshrikes, sugarbirds, rockjumpers, woodhoopoes, turacos and hyliotas.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Tours groups that I guided to Ethiopia ten years ago had to endure very basic accommodation, almost no surfaced roads and low levels of service. Black-winged Lovebird Another endemic now shared with Eritrea, this cute little parrot is not uncommon in forest edges and woodlands, even occurring in towns and cities.
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