10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Three years ago I asked American birders which foreign countries they dream of birding, and with more than one fifth of all answers, Costa Rica turned to hold a very strong first place.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

I had the good fortune to visit Lake Nakuru in Kenya in 2019, one of the high elevation rift valley soda lakes. There is still so much to learn! It seems like ages ago and almost a completely foreign concept, but once upon a time we used to travel for birding!

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Buffalo Kenya Trinidad 2019 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Herbert is Managing Director of Bird Uganda Safaris, LTD and his company offers a variety of birding and wildlife tours of the most naturally resplendent regions of Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. He is also the team leader of the African Birding Expo which has made him a members of the World Bird Fairs Council. Herbert holds a B.

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Uganda Rwanda Birds Industry 207

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JANUARY 22, 2023

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

A lot of destinations were mentioned, with Central and South America leading the way, New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia appearing only at the middle of the list, and African countries (South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar) lagging at the end of the list.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some Floridians to this day claim that all Grey-headed Swamphen present in their state were born in Kenya (in birding circles, these are known as “birthers”), and that the species should thus be removed from the American list. In 2013, it was even included in the birdwatching list of the American Birding Association.

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China Florida Kenya India 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. Kenya and Tanzania combined offer the longest tour list of Africa, South Africa with its good infrastructure and easiness of finding birds comes close second, while Madagascar is there because of its 100 endemics. 8%: Brazil, Panama. 17%: Ecuador, Peru.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

I wrote previously about the prolific birding that is to be had in the small town of Baringo, Kenya. That post dealt specifically with the dry scrub that surrounds Lake Baringo, however. The lake itself is a whole other pot of gold. At an elevation of 970m, Lake Baringo is a typical freshwater Rift Valley lake with much of the usual suspects.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

My Kenya list of 69 species consists entirely of birds I saw during business trips to Nairobi. If you pick the afternoon flight, you will have a whole morning for birding. Case in point, this has been my modus operandus in Nairobi. My preference is the night flight to Nairobi in, and the night flight out.

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Birds Nashville Unwanted Kenya 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To follow on from that, I decided to include a few other often-overlooked birds from my travels to Kenya. It was only during the preparation of that post I truly realized how many images I had of these little brown birds! Hanging out with my friend Washington Wachira of Cisticola Tours Ltd – it was impossible to bypass any cisticola.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Kenya seized almost 700 kilograms of ivory worth millions of dollars in a night-time raid at the country's main airport. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2015

My only sighting until this year had been a distant speck on a far off koppie in Kenya, but this pair (they live in pairs) came very close to my safari vehicle in Madikwe in South Africa. Literally ‘rock-jumper’ in Afrikaans, this tiny antelope is rarely found far from rocky outcrops (or koppies) or mountainous outcrops.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Photo taken by Adam Riley in Kenya. Image taken in Samburu, Kenya by Adam Riley. Image taken in Kenya by Adam Riley. This rather aberrant weaver-like bird is endemic to northern Tanzania, although the first Kenya record was recently obtained during a Rockjumper Birding Tour in the Maasai Mara.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 220

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals.

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Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 184

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa are heavily eBirded because Americans regularly visit. There are some places we want to see in our lives, birds we want to get, but we are also driven to visit places where we know few people who have gone. eBird is a huge help with that.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In my younger days I always kept year lists: my best ever year was 1986, when I topped the 1,000 mark thanks to trips to Australia, Kenya and various European destinations. Birdwatchers love making lists, with the year list one of the most important.

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Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

If it means that the authors think that this – the many fine photographs, by David Tipling — is distinctive in books about migration, and that it’s something of which he, and they, are, and should be, proud, they’re right on both counts, as the examples below (clockwise from upper left: Lesser Flamingos in Kenya, Turtle Doves in Norfolk, Osprey (..)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

They do not look or act much like any other birds (my photo above shows a Speckled Mousebird , Colius striatus , in Nairobi, Kenya). Mousebirds (order Coliiformes) are one of the perennial puzzles in bird systematics. The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Kenya Parrots Africa North America 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. . – now the pace quickens: USA; Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia; Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam. 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China. 1401-1600 sp: Ecuador, Bolivia; Indonesia.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 195

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat. Sheldrick is fourth-generation Kenya-born and has spent the better part of her life tending wild animals.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Lilac-breasted Roller is the national bird of Kenya, but of course, this does not help it pay its bills in South Africa. .” The Latin species name caudatus does not really mean much – just that it has a tail. Thanks for pointing that out. The Magpie Shrike looks like a magpie but is a proper shrike.

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Swaziland Landlord Birds Sweden 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

While Uganda does not have the international reputation of its neighbors Kenya and Tanzania, the experience there is no less extraordinary – and in many ways, particularly for the birder, it’s even more so. The diversity of habitats in this country that is approximately the size of Oregon is particularly notable.

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Uganda Africa Squirrels Tanzania 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya). They seem to like the building and are pretty tame. Bringing food to the young. This fledgeling was trapped in the lobby, but we were able to guide it back outside. The family reunited in safety.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

More than two tons of illegal ivory have been seized and more than 100 people have been arrested in the largest international operation targeting wildlife crime across Eastern Africa, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced today.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

This attractive (for a lark anyway) species is restricted to the dry savannah Somali-Maasai biome of north-east Africa (northern Tanzania, Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia). Photo by Adam Riley. Pink-breasted Lark. Its specific preference is arid areas with sandy soils and scattered trees. Pink-breasted Dove.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2016

Bird book of choice is the “Birds of East Africa” by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe, a Helm Field Guide covering Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi – also the first complete guide to cover the 1388 species found in this region.

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Africa Uganda Gorillas Rwanda 130

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Everything from lions in Kenya to snow leopards in the Himalaya, the big cats all need our help. So of course we wanted to help spread the word about the Cause an Uproar initiative. Big cats in the world need our help. They are disappearing quickly due to habitat loss as well as conflict with humans.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Aisles of exhibitors tempted visitors with birding trips to such far-flung locations as Colombia, Kenya, and Sri Lanka, and grown men and women got all kid-in-a-candy-store at the optics booths. When field trips wrapped up, it was time to head back to the Expo Center.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Kilimanjaro in Kenya, lions are attacking Maasai cattle, as they have for hundreds of years. As promised, another sneak peak! Tonight’s program is called Lion Warriors and premieres Wednesday, December 8, at 9PM ET/PT. On the Great Plains below Mt.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2012

The Mantled Guereza , ( Colobus guereza ) The Mantled Guereza, also known as the Eastern Black-and-white Colobus or Abyssinian Black-and-white Colobus , is a common forest species found across the rain forests and savannah woodlands of central Africa from Cameroon to Kenya, with a separate population across most of Ethiopia.

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Monkeys Uganda Primates Cameroon 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The former occurs from Kakamega Forest in Kenya westwards to Cameroon and the latter from Cameroon westwards to Sierra Leone. It occurs in similar montane forest edges but further south, with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania forming the bulk of its range.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

Kenya (1034 / 1153). Taking as a rule, the higher figure is more accurate. The Oriental realm. Indonesia (1615 / 1603). Malaysia (702 / 781). Thailand (925 / 948). India (1180 / 1171). Sri Lanka (375 / 436). The Afrotropics. Uganda (987 / 1083). South Africa (755 / 842). Botswana (529 / 577). Namibia (595 / 690). The Neotropics.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Essentially, their record was broken in 1986 by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe when they recorded 342 species during one calendar day in Kenya. Talk about mega birding (and mega skills of course)! Although they did use a small plane during the process, that’s still one heck of an impressive total.

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Costa Rica South Africa Kenya Ecuador 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

Finally the most northern population ranges are found in coastal forests of northern Tanzania and Kenya. This image was taken in Nairobi National Park, Kenya. Image from Kakamega Forest, Kenya. The reasons for this hugely fragmented population have yet to be fully unraveled. This image was taken at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

Secretarybird ( Sagittarius serpentarius ) in Kenya by David J. The Secretarybird is a powerful, long-legged terrestrial hunter particularly well known for killing snakes by stamping them to death but also perfectly happy to consume other animal prey.

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 276

Critter News

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Body said arrests and seizures were part of a five-country law enforcement operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL, and involved more than 300 law enforcement officers from police, customs, national wildlife and national intelligence agencies in Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, further saying this represented largest-ever international (..)

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