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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

10,000 Birds

As in the first post, I am using eBird as the main information source. Serengeti NP protects a huge swathe of almost 15,000 km2 / 6000 mi2 in north-west Tanzania. The furry kind is represented with 95 species – more than in any other Ugandan park, 10 primates among them, including the Chimpanzee. SERVIR Africa Workshop.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . And wow, what a trip we had!

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

But maybe bringing up a cuckoo brings good karma, who knows … After the initial posting, Andrew Bailey informed me that after a split, the babbler above is now Grey-hooded Babbler. Yes, you can get that information! At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.