10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2022
The Congo is one of the deepest rivers in the world with depths sometimes exceeding 220 meters (720 feet). The Congo Basin is 300,000 square miles (777,000 square kilometres) in size and its forests store 25 per cent of tropical forest carbon. million hectares of forest cover each year.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Some are incredibly rare and hard to find. Lodge provided the frontispiece for Part II).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
In Africa, our bee-eaters occur from the southern tip of the continent right through to the far north, occupying an incredible range of habitats and niches, from the interior of the deepest rainforests of the Congo to the arid steppes of the Sahel. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2018
Nyungwe is also a place that offers the best birding in the Albertine Rift Endemic Bird Area, apart from the out-of-bounds sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1). Best timing here is the dry season, June to September, when most birds are breeding (3). Red-collared Mountain Babbler in Nyungwe by Gael Vande Weghe.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Yellow-billed Stork portrait (note the pink flush indicating breeding status), Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania by Adam Riley The Yellow-billed Stork has a closely-related sister species in Asia known as Painted Stork. During breeding season, their white plumage turns a delicate pink color, a lovely sight indeed.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
Of course, there is more war in the Congo. They don't breed in captivity. They don't breed in captivity. Tags: virunga africa gorilla war congo. Always, always, war. And the mountain gorillas are once again vulnerable. The rebels have taken over the wildlife rangers' headquarters and the gorillas are unprotected.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
My research in the Congo supports this idea. But, if you capture wild birds (to make them pets) then breed them through one generation and they get out, they are bad at avoiding predators. If you capture birds (to make them pets) from the wild, and they get out, they are good at avoiding predators.
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