10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

There were grumpy old fishermen, fishing through the closed season when the fish enter the backwaters to spawn, but also carrying handguns on their belts and assuming that, being armed and dangerous, they have every right to the area. The Ada Huja riverbank. Which birds can be seen there?

Serbia 243

Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family. D’Arnaud’s Barbet displaying atop a fencepost. A young Hamar woman.

Ethiopia 245

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind.

Elephants 189

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. There were probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of species of fish-with-feet, and one population gave rise to the so-called “tetrapods,” animals with skeletons, arms, and legs, including modern snakes and living gorillas. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right?

Monkeys 140

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 140

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

This image (by Marius Coetzee) shows Adam Riley & David Hoddinott with a group in Nsuta Forest, a forest reserve that is in the process of being clear-felled and settled by subsistence farmers. The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here.

Ghana 195

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 195