article thumbnail

Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

10,000 Birds

Also, the lake is the most reliable place for both Black and White Rhinos in the whole of East Africa. Just one more thing, bird book of choice is the “Birds of East Africa” by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe, second edition (2020). Roger Tory Peterson called it “the most fabulous bird spectacle in the world”.

Africa 263
article thumbnail

An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

10,000 Birds

We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better policy: between 2013 and 2017, well over a thousand rhinos were annually poached in South Africa.