10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
What drove me to this revelation was crossing the border of the tiny, enclaved nation of Lesotho via the Sani Pass, a ridiculously treacherous road. Hannah overlooking a valley Traveling into Lesotho from the Sani Pass is an experience more than just the journey to the top.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2013
Albeit currently a rugged 4×4-only road, Sani Pass is the most accessible route from KwaZulu-Natal into the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. The male Swee Waxbill sports a black face and groups of these beautiful birds are common in the wooded areas of the lower Sani Pass. Photo by Adam Riley. Image by Adam Riley.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. Wait, let’s backtrack a bit.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
They are often found roosting in small groups along the edges of lakes and riverine sandbars. A large flock of resting Abdim’s Storks along the Nile, Uganda by Adam Riley A White Stork in its favored short grass habitat, Sani Pass, Lesotho by Adam Riley The White Stork is the most strictly migrant of all our storks.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
This image shows Sani Pass, a rough 4×4 track leading into the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Woodward’s Barbet belongs to a group of barbets known as Green Barbets. Image by Adam Riley. With this quote I have the pleasure of introducing my home province (state) for this month’s 10,000 Bird’s Africa Beat. Image by Adam Riley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Drakensberg (or Orange-breasted) Rockjumper is a Drakensberg Mountain species whose range is shared with the tiny landlocked kingdom of Lesotho. One of the Drakensberg Rockjumper ’s most reliable stake-outs is Sani Pass, a winding 4×4 track from the village of Himeville into the mountain kingdom of Lesotho.
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2011
This was tough because this excluded species that occur in two countries within South Africa’s geographical area, Lesotho and Swaziland. The korhaans are a group of small bustards and South Africa has 7 species. I then decided to reduce it further to South African endemics only.
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