10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

Equatorial Guinea 219

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 219

Critter News

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

An operation across five Africa countries over weekend, targeting wildlife crime has led to arrest of almost 60 people and seizure of one ton of illegal elephant ivory, Interpol has reported. Tags: wildlife crime ivory wildlife trafficking africa elephants. Just five days ago.

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Trafficking Africa Zambia Ghana 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

Only in Africa is it really easy to see a big variety. 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. We also saw a leopard, but it was the A to Z that sticks in the mind.

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Africa has a superabundance of antelopes, and one of the cutest and most unusual is the Klipspringer. 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. The males have horns.

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South Africa Kenya Leopards Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa are heavily eBirded because Americans regularly visit. Various species can be found in dry grassland habitats in Africa, Eurasia, and Australia, so it is fun for a North American to stumble upon this not frequently-seen-bird. eBird is a huge help with that.

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Senegal South Dakota Gambia Birds 225

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. And I remembered that, back when I was a boy, I wanted to live in eastern Africa. Which leaves only East Africa. Some regions are politically unstable, e.g. most of Central and Western Africa.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

In the latter category are included the Common Cuckoo, the European one, the one celebrated by Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Wordsworth, which, as they surely did not know, winters in Africa; the Southern Carmine Bee-Eater, an intra-Africa migrant; and the gorgeous (see photo below) Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, an irregular migrant of two subspecies, often (..)

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Alaska Breeding Kenya Africa 238

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). The six living species are all found in Sub-Saharan Africa. Birds Africa genetics taxonomy and systematics'

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Kenya Parrots Africa North America 182

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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illegal Kenya Laos Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Africa’s famous Big Five , but do you know there is also an equally fascinating Little Five ? Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 226

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 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

Over a decade since I was last there, I am finally heading back to Africa late this year. As has been the case every time I’ve been to Africa before, I won’t be there just for play. As has been the case every time I’ve been to Africa before, I won’t be there just for play.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2012

It’s a mini-Africa Week at the moment on 10,000 Birds, with Adam talking about spectacular bee-eaters in his post and James discussing the diminutive African Pygmy-geese. Kibale National Park, in the west of the Central African nation of Uganda, is home to a 13 primate species, from Common Chimpanzees to bush-babies.

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Monkeys Uganda Primates Cameroon 169

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. 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 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding.

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Africa South Africa Gabon Uganda 266

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Ethiopia , a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. The Abyssinian Empire was the only African nation to survive what is now known as the Scramble for Africa, and was never colonized (it did endure 6 brutal years under Fascist Italian occupation).

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 275

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl. When was the last time you chose a book by its covers? Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We’ll see ambitious programs to save diverse species from the outback of Australia, the savannahs of East Africa, the Brazilian Amazon and some of the most successful zoo breeding programs in the world. And Kenya boasts a unique orphanage … for elephants! Miracle Babies: Baby Pandas. Tuesday, September 13, at 8P ET/PT.

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Pandas Leopards Gorillas Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa).

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 253

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 17, 2009

All donations go to the National AAZK for distribution to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, Africa, the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia and the Bukit Barisan Seletan National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia. Date: May 1, 2009. Time: 5:00pm-9:00pm. Location: Olympus Hills Bowling Alley. 4015 Wasatch Blvd.

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Rhinos Indonesia Utah Kenya 100

Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

forest buffalo goes into first ​ hyena: The spotted hyena is a highly successful animal, being the most common large carnivore in Africa. This species is found on the African continent, in Angola, as well as central, eastern, and southern Africa. Their eyesight is so acute that buffalos often graze at night.

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Africa Buffalo Ostriches Animal 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

You may have heard of him; he lives in Kenya and holds the Big Day world record. Meet the teams: The World Birding Rally teams are composed of tour leaders from four companies: Birding Ecotours (South Africa, led by Duan Biggs); Wings/Sunbird (U.K./U.S., Each time I traveled with the Sunbird/Wings team, the pace seemed to quicken.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

A single morning birding the thorny desert of Baringo in Kenya’s Rift Valley yielded several species at a rate I at times struggled to keep up with. Lake Baringo and the surrounding desert scrub at just over 3,000 feet elevation is one of the most profitable birding hotspots in the country, boasting approximately 470 species.

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Kenya Owls Hunters Ostriches 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Placing one hand over his pate, as he was wont to do, and pointing at the others as he spoke with the finger of his other hand, Isaac stated in his semi-elvian voice, colored with the British Colonial Accent he grew into as the son of a South African Brit exiled to Kenya, the following: “Eric, shut up. Your argument is invalid.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Several times, the answer was “Africa”, which, being a continent and not a country, I excluded from the statistics, but will further comment below. 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. Africa is a huge continent with varied landscapes and rich biodiversity. 8%: Brazil, Panama.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Reed Cormorant ( Microcarbo africanus ), Nairobi, Kenya © David J. Ringer Anhinga and Darters (Anhingidae) The Anhinga and three darter species inhabit warm, freshwater regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. Around 3,000 birds summered and bred at Birecik in the 1930’s but this declined to only 400 by 1982.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2022

It may indicate, however, that the form of government in Eswatini – it is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy – is not ideal. The Lilac-breasted Roller is the national bird of Kenya, but of course, this does not help it pay its bills in South Africa. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Swaziland Landlord Birds Sweden 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

They are a single genus, Cichladusa , with three species, found mostly in Central and Eastern Africa. They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya). They have been considered closest to the alethes, but even that relationship is tenuous.

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Mozambique Zambia Zimbabwe Namibia 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

I wrote about the Hoatzin here a couple of years ago when Gerald Mayr published a paper hypothesizing that Hoatzins invaded South America from Africa by raft. Secretarybird ( Sagittarius serpentarius ) in Kenya by David J. The story just keeps getting better. Hoatzin ( Opisthocomus hoazin ) by Carine06.

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 278

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

Indeed, being obnoxious is surely a basic prerequisite to their survival in their home, sub-Saharan Africa, where living next to a waterhole means fending off native megafauna, ranging from a herd of elephants to a pride of lions, on a daily basis. I think we’re not in Kenya anymore.

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Germany Geese Netherlands Kenya 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Of these 90, all occur in Africa bar 5 Asian and 2 Malagasy weavers. Photo taken by Adam Riley in South Africa. Photo taken by Adam Riley in Kenya. All occur in the Guinea-Congolese rainforests of Africa, with Red-headed being the most widespread. Image taken in South Africa by Adam Riley.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It was a busy one, with birding trips not only to Europe, but also Central America, East, West and Southern Africa, South-East Asia and Australia. It was during this period that I took part in a bird race in Kenya, where I saw 290 species in one day, 442 in two. Red Grouse in North Yorkshire, a good tick?

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Sri Lanka Kenya San Francisco Greece 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

Kenya 1131 14. Kenya (Masai Mara, Lakes Nakuru and Baringo, Arabuko-Sokoke Forest) and northern Tanzania (Ngorongoro, Serengeti) combined are the birding staple of East Africa. Ecuador 1690 6. Bolivia 1433 7. Venezuela 1417 8. China 1410 9. India 1341 10. Democratic Republic of Congo 1185 11.

Uganda 263

Uganda Bolivia Ecuador Indonesia 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

They occur in three biogeographic regions; the Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Malaya ecozones, basically tropical South and Central America, Africa south of the Sahara and tropical Asia. The diminutive Tinkerbirds are Africa’s smallest barbets, depicted here is Red-fronted Tinkerbird photographed at Lalibela, Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 248