10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2021
A Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler made an early experience. I know it is a bit unfair to the species, but it makes me recall the description of one man`s appearance in one of my favorite Raymond Chandler novels (“above the sky-blue gabardine slacks he wore a two-tone leisure jacket which would have been revolting on a zebra”).
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
But my long wait to see antelope, zebras and everything in between is finally over. Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. Ugandan Mangabeys were part of my family once. And come the new year I’ll be telling you all about my experiences this time around.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Generally the large family herds of buffalo are peaceful, but the old bulls (called “dagga” boys, “dagga” being a Zulu word for “mud” since they are often covered with the substance after their long wallows) who have left the herds tend to be furious with life in general and anyone they can smash in particular.
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!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2016
It was here I managed to finally find my Brown Hyaena, making that family the first family of mammals of which I have seen every species (Spotted, Brown, Striped Hyaenas and Aardwolf)). A Shaft-tailed Whydah, a member of a small African family of cuckoo-finches. Purple Roller. Some Red-billed Oxpeckers on some big thing.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2024
Having learned from my Namibian experience I walked away briskly. I ended up scoring four lifers: African Dusky Flycatcher , Village Weaver , Whyte Barbet and Zebra Waxbill. In my family, we have a tradition (in place since 1347 when we survived the Black Death) of “ wait over the weekend and see what happens ”.
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