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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

With a trip to South Africa on the horizon at the time, I thought I could handle it. Nothing wets the appetite for a birding trip like a map with a Blue-banded Pitta posed in the middle and a Rhinoceros Hornbill flying across the edge! Did I dare dip my toe into this catalog of tantalizing species? Now, I’m not so sure.

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Animals of Kruger National Park: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I’ll never forget my introduction to the mammals of Kruger National Park, South Africa. We –participants of the ABA South Africa Safari—were on a small plane when one Lori Conrad looked out the window and screamed, “There are elephants down there!” and everyone ran to Lori’s side of the plane. Believe me, I tried.

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