10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Image taken by Adam Riley in Tanzania. Image taken by Adam Riley in Tanzania. Bubalornis – the black Buffalo Weavers A male Red-billed Buffalo Weaver photographed in Tanzania by Adam Riley The two species of black buffalo weavers are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa. Image by Adam Riley in Namibia.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 226

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

A Marabou Stork arriving at its roost tree, Serengeti, Tanzania by Adam Riley We’ll start off with the largest and ugliest of them all (measuring up to 60in (152cm) in height, a weight of 20 lb (9 kg) and a wingspan of up to 12ft), the Marabou Stork. The Saddle-billed Stork has a similar Africa-wide distribution as the Marabou.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Tanzania’s Lake Natron, renowned as the best place in the world to see Lesser Flamingoes , is threatened by a potential soda ash plant.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

The next isolated populations are several thousand miles northwards in Malawi, northern Mozambique and the Rondo Plateau in southern Tanzania. Finally the most northern population ranges are found in coastal forests of northern Tanzania and Kenya. Image taken in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. Image from Lalibela, Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 235

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Click on the image to see a Speke’s Weaver colony in action on an escarpment near Lake Manyara, Tanzania. A female takes her time inspecting a nest while the male waits just out of view. Other weavers include the Grey-capped Social Weaver which is the size of a little sparrow.

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Tanzania Africa Hunting Sparrows 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2012

Tanzania’s more commonly seen shrikes are the Common Fiscal , Long-tailed Fiscal , Grey-backed Fiscal , the beautiful dark Magpie Shrike , and the White-crowned Shrike (seen in the series below). .” This one was calling to its family group as they wandered through the thorns searching for tidbits.

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Tanzania Butcher Groups Family 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2012

SUPER STARLINGS Tanzania plays host to a wide variety of Starlings, over twenty species in fact. In California we have the feisty intelligent generalist European Starling.

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Tanzania Chickens Blackbirds California 179

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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Senegal South Dakota Gambia Birds 202

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2012

Northern White-crowned Shrike in Tanzania by Walter Kitundu a. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Keep your eyes to the skies. If you’re lucky, you might see a striking shrike perched against a stunning sky!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Quintessential African scene from Tarangire National Park, Tanzania Africa boasts a fabulous and unique avifauna. Birding here is a joy, further augmented by the world’s most intact mammalian megafuana, fascinating tribal cultures, breath-taking scenery and the cradle of human history. What should you avoid and where should you not go?

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 201-400 sp: Madagascar, north African countries; European countries; Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 200

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And what I am saying here doesn’t only apply to his Sri Lanka guide, but to all the others as well (these include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Suriname).

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 233

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 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. Black Rhinos are best sought in South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania. Lions are most easily found in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 207

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Although there is a small wild population in the northern reaches of nearby Uganda, Rose-ringed Parakeets would have been a vagrant for German East Africa (now known as Tanzania) at the time. Their original home is Northeast Africa, The Middle East, India and Myanmar.

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Species Myanmar Tanzania Uganda 173

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). These Collared Palm-thrushes were photographed in the Cresta Mowana Lodge in Kasane, pretty much the only place you’ll see the species in Botswana (according to one of the guidebooks I read).

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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). Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. Photo by Adam Riley. Pink-breasted Lark.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 214

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

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Ruaha National Park in Tanzania used to be a true paradise for wildlife gathered around the rich Ruaha riverbanks. Another fun sneak peek of Nat Geo Wild’s Big Cat Week! Tonight, Lions on the Edge! Premieres Thursday, December 9, at 9PM ET/PT. Now, the worst drought in decades is pushing all the animals on a march to find water.

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Cats Lions Tanzania Zebras 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

The populations remain stable in Ethiopia, Tanzania and southern Africa, but have collapsed in West Africa and have declined in other parts as well. The White-backed Vulture is the most common species of vulture in Africa, although these days they are, like most vultures, globally endangered.

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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 134

Critter News

MARCH 22, 2010

Zambia and Tanzania proposed re-opening the trade, but the UN said no.

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Zambia Tanzania Elephants Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This tiny passerine winters in Africa, places like Tanzania, Nigeria, Somalia. They also migrate to and from the High Arctic, crossing the Atlantic to Europe, but they keep going, down across the Mediterranean into Africa. From the Tundra to the African Steppes.

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Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania. As the world’s largest living bird, the Ostrich is the topic of many weird and wonderful scientific papers. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

Instead, name one of the endemic species in this country.

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2011 Myanmar Bolivia Venezuela 150

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Goodall will share her incredible life’s journey during this unique live event, which will highlight not only the decades of her most extraordinary study of the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, but also provide audiences with a rare look into the life of one the world’s most extraordinary people.

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Los Angeles Tanzania Africa Research 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. But that was seven years ago.

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Mongoose Chickens India Wildlife Rehabilitation 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

These include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique and Rwanda, among others, all of which are regularly updated for new editions. In recent years he authored the first English-language guidebook to Suriname and an overhauled 600-page guidebook to Sri Lanka, both published by Bradt.

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Sri Lanka Ghana Uganda Eagles 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I’ll be in Tanzania when that post appears working on a new topic for January. Now Patch would reach down and pluck the gophers from the surface of the earth, carrying them wriggling and screeching up into the trees where she would dispatch them. Stay tuned.

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Gophers Blackbirds Tanzania Hunting 212

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Interestingly, the HBW gives different contact calls depending on the country in which the flycatcher lives: “Contact call a simple ‘zeet, zwayt’ (South Africa), ‘ti-twit tee-twit’ (Gabon), ‘zi’zk’zk’ (Tanzania).”

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 194

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 19, 2010

We are engaging new partners, like the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania, to support local reforestation efforts and we’re working with companies from ESRI to Google Earth Outreach to employ cutting-edge geospatial technology to address conservation challenges in Africa.

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Tanzania Industry 2010 Africa 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

It occurs in similar montane forest edges but further south, with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania forming the bulk of its range. Excellent locations for finding this bird include Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park and the forests cloaking Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater.

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Africa Gabon South Africa Uganda 265

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2011

I’m in Tanzania now dreaming up my next post so I’ll see you in 2 weeks. Patch provided so many moments of wonder and awe both to me and the other park goers. I can’t imagine having another sustained encounter like that. It was a special time and the reason I’m such a raptor enthusiast to this day.

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Tanzania Breeding Rights Birds 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Take the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Lion shooting over three years brought $75 million into the economy of Tanzania alone. If you want to have the “thrill” of shooting a wild lion (not a canned hunt), well, you’re going to need a lot of land to sustain those lions. Managing areas for hunting does exactly that.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

If tourists are too dim to tell Sierra Leone from Botswana or Tanzania, do we really want to rely on them to save Africa’s species? Ebola, a disease ravaging the other side of the continent. Booking were down by half in some wildlife tourist sites.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 212

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A two-week birding tour could expect around 400 species and up to 550 in 3 weeks, including sightings of most of Ethiopia’s endemic and near-endemic birds.

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 270