Botswana

While much of the attention that Africa’s tourism industry gets is for its (deservedly) popular national parks and game reserves,…

Who doesn’t love a good owl? There are few families of birds where despite a cosmopolitan distribution I’m always so…

Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999 Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone,…

I’ve never been one to be overly concerned about whether a bird “counts”. People, and organisations, have complex and elaborate…

Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is…

When I read somewhere that Pygmy Geese were not actually geese at all I started doing some research. I discovered…

Its a hard life being a bird but its especially hard if you’re a crane. Of the fifteen species of…

There is no raptor quite so removed from the typical confines of what a bird of prey should look and…

Birding’s Holy Grails. They lurk ever-present in our sub-concious as sacred items on an unobtainable, yet highly desirable, list. We…

We are currently filming in Botswana. What this land-locked country lacks in endemic birds it more than makes up for…