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Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, 5th edition

10,000 Birds

And so, back to political entities, this field guide covers Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , the southern half of Mozambique (south of the Zambezi River), South Africa , Lesotho and Eswatini ( Swaziland ). This region is so far from the northern breeding grounds that there are no migratory corridors to show.

Africa 264
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Landfill by Tim Dee: Review

10,000 Birds

” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. Claire didn’t stopped there, but repeated the same kind of rediscovery after the war in Mozambique. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.”

Angola 184
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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

Those large international agencies use reputable local ground agents, and in my experience this creates a safety cocoon around the travellers. 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.

Sri Lanka 147