Remove Collecting Remove Family Remove Hunting Remove Namibia
article thumbnail

Birding in a Hellmouth

10,000 Birds

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. A Bat Hawk hunting bats.

Bats 155
article thumbnail

Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

Originally they were all placed in the family Capitonidae , but over time taxonomists have determined that actual relationships between these barbets are far more complex. Benson to collect birds. Gray-throated Barbet is one of the plainer members of the African Barbet family. Image taken in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania.

Ethiopia 247