Tag: birding
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Camping at the Rocky Mountain
Both mornings we woke to the calls of francolins. I used to have them as the ringtone on my mobile phone – until a friend pointed out that it sounded like someone having fun on an old spring mattress. At any time of day when at our tent – one of those luxury-style tents, with…
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Where to Find Birds in Kenya
I like travel. I like birds. And someone has just produced a book that I really appreciate – and one that I am going to well use. That someone is the Kenya conservationist, Catherine Ngarachu. Her book is 50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya, which is published by Struik Nature, an imprint of Penguin Random…
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Bird ‘Atlassing’ in a Wet Amboseli
As long as I can remember, I have been keen on birds – the feathered ones, I mean. In fact, I have it on authority from my parents that my very first word was ‘bird’. Whether I was pointing out of the window at a black kite fly-by at the time… that could be only…
Going Places Africa 