My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (around 850 species recorded to date) it doesn’t compete with tropical countries to the north or on other continents (especially South America), South Africa makes up for this in several ways: • the highest...

For anyone with an interest in African birds and birding, the following should be of immense interest…After extensive searching, Greg Davies & Hugh Chittenden have rediscovered an isolated population of Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) in Mozambique, 55 years after the original (and only) southern...

(This article first appeared on 10000birds.com) Gaining independence in 1990, Namibia is one of Africa’s “newer” nations, although not quite as newborn as South Sudan which has yet to celebrate its first anniversary! Before self-rule it was administered by South Africa and known as South-West Africa....

Africa has more than its fair share of storks, with 8 of the world’s 19 species gracing the continent. Furthermore, we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill, previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Storks are typically viewed as wetland species and...

Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, is often described as ‘a laboratory of evolution’; due to it splitting off first from Africa and later India, 135 and 88 million years ago respectively, there was a lot of time for the fauna and flora of the island to evolve in isolation. The resulting variety...