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Birding Senegal: Costco ads and Scissor-tailed Kites

10,000 Birds

Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa are heavily eBirded because Americans regularly visit. This is where you find a birding phenomenon that makes the annoyances of regular road checkpoints with either military officers or local law enforcement, whizzing scooters, and bumpy roads worth the effort. eBird is a huge help with that.

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A Brief Tour of Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

10,000 Birds

While Uganda does not have the international reputation of its neighbors Kenya and Tanzania, the experience there is no less extraordinary – and in many ways, particularly for the birder, it’s even more so. More to come as I law out the trip in my head better. Hope you come back!

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