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Wheatley calls Kenya “possibly the best overall wildlife experience in Africa and the world”), so, the only competition is practically 3 to 4 decades old and the time was ripe for Ngarachu’s guide. Each site gets from 2 to 5 pages (but mostly 3-4). Also, Kenya is covered in Nigel Wheatley’s Where to Watch Birds in Africa from 1995.
Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. They would know the local streams, lakes, and marshes.
Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. Hence, it was a bit of an annoyance to be forced to hire a general nature guide who knows mostly mammals.
Rather than the usual dismal waiting area there were comfortable seats and drinks, and when our transports arrived, we were placed in two large four wheel drives rather than one, so that we wouldn’t feel cramped. We arrived at the rather untouristy seasite town of Lahad Datu where our guide dropped us off at the office of the lodge.
And even though transportation is so easy and inexpensive, prepare to walk a lot. I read that the Peak was a great place for thrushes in winter; experience proved the veracity of that observation, but you’ll need to examine the underbrush closely. BONUS MAMMAL SPECIES LIST. Plus, taxis are cheaper than you’d expect.
The food was better than decent, which exceeds our experience of Panamanian cuisine at most other locations. Despite the golf course, this place host all manner of birds and mammals. In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site.
He leaves enchanted by two mammals, the Emperor Penguin and the Weddell Seal, the only mammals who totally live their whole lives, year-round, in the Antarctic. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation. And it really is annotated!
Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. Running time: 12 Minutes.
Most of them had brought kids along as well (probably among my least favorite mammals), which were pulled on gaudily colored skiing sleds by their hapless parents, creating a constant raucous noise. So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience.
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