Birds

Pheasant-tailed Jacana courtship dance

April 23, 2012 by Adam Riley 5 Comments
Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east...
Birds

Africa’s Barbets

April 10, 2012 by Adam Riley 8 Comments
Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics. They...
Trips

KwaZulu-Natal

March 13, 2012 by Adam Riley 13 Comments
“There is, perhaps, no better place in the world for birds than this country. Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel...
Trips

Ethiopia’s Endemics

February 14, 2012 by Adam Riley 31 Comments
Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Only twenty years...
Birds

Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

January 10, 2012 by Adam Riley 11 Comments
The family Picathartidae consists of two very unusual birds; White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa; and Gray-necked...
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South Africa’s endemic birds

December 13, 2011 by Adam Riley 11 Comments
My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (843 species recorded to date) it...
Trips

Madagascar’s Lost and Found

November 8, 2011 by Adam Riley 14 Comments
Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. This is...
Trips

Tanzania – Africa at its best

October 11, 2011 by Adam Riley 12 Comments
Tanzania is without a doubt the quintessential African safari nation. Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in...
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