10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Herbert is the founder of Uganda Bird Guides Club, Uganda Women birders Club, Uganda Safari Guides Association, and is the Chairman of the Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Council of Uganda. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda. Shoebill at Mabamba Swamp.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. In the relatively brief period, my group had something on the order of 450 species.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. Nor is the Shoebill the national bird of Uganda. Uganda may offer a chance at x% of the world’s bird species—birds we fully intended on tracking down—but the Shoebill surpasses them all in importance.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2019
The action began almost immediately, with crackers like Uganda Woodland-Warbler , African Forest-Flycatcher , Rufous-crowned Eremomela , and the highly localized White-thighed Hornbill. Uganda definitely delivers all the fancy forest kingfishers you could want. White-thighed Hornbill. Chocolate-backed Kingfisher.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2019
I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa. I saw nine species of kingfisher while I was in Uganda. I always wanted to see a bright red male and my long wait was over this December when I managed to connect with one at San Joaquin Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary. Number 9 – Gray-headed Kingfisher.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds.
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