10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India. Bird Uganda Safaris. We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. But, as you’ve probably noticed, we’re not out of the pandemic yet.

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Costa Rica Uganda Greece Ghana 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Also, a firm favorite is the prehistoric-looking Shoebill from Uganda. This is a real hard one, but I would have to say the stunning Pel’s Fishing Owl as this was my Spark bird-it’s the bird that got me into birding. Pel’s Fishing Owl What is your name, and where do you live? Marc Cronje.

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Uganda Africa Fish Owls 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

The bird-richest region of Africa is its equatorial East: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (unlike the rest, the last one, Burundi, is politically unstable and not recommendable). At the time of writing, Uganda has 16 hotspots with 400+ so far eBirded species, of which one has almost 600 species. SERVIR Africa Workshop.

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Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania 196

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The action began almost immediately, with crackers like Uganda Woodland-Warbler , African Forest-Flycatcher , Rufous-crowned Eremomela , and the highly localized White-thighed Hornbill. Uganda definitely delivers all the fancy forest kingfishers you could want. White-thighed Hornbill. Chocolate-backed Kingfisher.

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Uganda Monkeys Africa Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2014

Would you go birding in Uganda, where the punishment for being gay is now life in prison? Politics Uganda' Paul Hurtado has a very well-thought-out post on birding (or not birding) places where the politics are problematic, to say the least.

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Uganda Birds 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

These African Skimmers were photographed at the Kazinga Channel, a body of water linking Lake George and Lake Edward in western Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Birding skimmers Uganda' More African Skimmers, this time with some Yellow-billed Storks . The African Skimmers also fly over hippos. Euphorbias at sundown.

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Uganda Madagascar Buffalo Africa 191

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, I never would have gotten that picture of a Lilac-breasted Roller in Uganda at the top of this post without the help of Herbert Byaruhanga. We recognize the skill and hard work that goes into making sure that birders get great looks at great birds. Read on!

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Industry Uganda Birds Rights 305

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AUGUST 14, 2012

Excellent sites for seeing this beauty include Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park in Uganda and Ghana’s Kakum National Park. It occurs in similar montane forest edges but further south, with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania forming the bulk of its range. Excellent sites include Ampijoroa in Madagascar and Murchison Falls in Uganda.

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Africa Gabon Uganda South Africa 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2012

Kibale National Park, in the west of the Central African nation of Uganda, is home to a 13 primate species, from Common Chimpanzees to bush-babies. They may not even be most beautiful species of monkey in Uganda, the guenons are even more attractive to my mind, but they are certainly the most striking. Long may they remain so.

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Monkeys Uganda Primates Cameroon 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. The Masindi Hotel holds the distinction of being the oldest and most historic hotel in Uganda and has some terrific birds on premises.

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Uganda Senegal Africa Game 183

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Directly under the Equator: southwestern Uganda! In “Where to Watch Birds in Africa”, Nigel Wheatley says: “In terms of its size, Uganda is the richest country for birds in Africa.” Try to lay your fingers on a copy of “Where to watch birds in Uganda” by Jonathan Rossouw and Marco Sacchi (this one I still miss).

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Africa Uganda Gorillas Rwanda 128

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

A large flock of resting Abdim’s Storks along the Nile, Uganda by Adam Riley A White Stork in its favored short grass habitat, Sani Pass, Lesotho by Adam Riley The White Stork is the most strictly migrant of all our storks. This stork is named in honor of Bey El-Arnaut Abdim, a 19th century Turkish Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 237

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Some of those “statistical errors” came as surprises to me, e.g. Cuba, Bolivia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Thailand (this is also a clear message to their tourism boards to invest more into promoting avitourism). If I were answering those same questions, my answers would probably be Ecuador, Uganda and Thailand. What would be your choices?

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2019

In such a case, you might opt to book an eastbound flight, or a series of flights, from Lisbon to Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, then Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo, PNG, Tahiti, Ecuador, Guyana and finally to Costa Rica…. Its northern neighbour Uganda has 1080 birds, including 24 Albertine endemics. for savanna species.

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Costa Rica Sri Lanka Rwanda Papua New Guinea 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Nyungwe montane forest national park has 320 species, including 29 Albertine Rift endemics, plus excellent tarmac roads, making highland habitats more accessible than in neighboring Uganda, and the Akagera moist savanna NP offers 490 species. The best season here is from June to September.

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Gambia Equatorial Guinea Species Rwanda 236

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa. I saw nine species of kingfisher while I was in Uganda. Such an unusual and reclusive species so close was a real thrill, and one the highlights of the entire trip to Uganda. This last year of the twenty-teens was a monumental birding year for me.

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2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 138

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

While we’ve seen more than 150 amazing species in our first 48 hours attending the 3rd African Birding Expo and the pre-Expo familiarity tour of Uganda, one species stands as first among equals. For once in a long while, Corey and I share the same Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Uganda Science Birds 161

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Uganda (987 / 1083). Taking as a rule, the higher figure is more accurate. The Oriental realm. Indonesia (1615 / 1603). Malaysia (702 / 781). Thailand (925 / 948). India (1180 / 1171). Sri Lanka (375 / 436). The Afrotropics. Kenya (1034 / 1153). South Africa (755 / 842). Botswana (529 / 577). Namibia (595 / 690). The Neotropics.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

Instead, name one of the endemic species in this country. EXTRA CREDIT Name a guide or a group that you would recommend using when visiting.

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Myanmar Bolivia 2011 Venezuela 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. Image taken in Uganda’s Budongo Forest by Adam Riley Buffalo The big – to anyone familiar with the wilds of Africa, the Cape or African Buffalo is the most fearsome of all animals.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. In Uganda I would often cross paths with Chimpanzees as they went about their lives and I went about mine (which was living with a troop of monkeys). The second trip was for my masters project ( the one with the cave ). Amazing stuff.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Although there is a small wild population in the northern reaches of nearby Uganda, Rose-ringed Parakeets would have been a vagrant for German East Africa (now known as Tanzania) at the time. Their original home is Northeast Africa, The Middle East, India and Myanmar.

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Species Myanmar Tanzania Uganda 173

Critter News

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Tags: nature climate change human behavior environment uganda.

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Humane Uganda Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

One of my most cherished birding sightings in Uganda was seeing a distant male hornbill land by a walled up hole in a tree and feed its mate. And I liked toucans, so clearly hornbills were on to a winning look, in fact, as a child it was hornbills, toucans and parrots that I associated the tropics with. Oriental Pied Hornbill.

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Singapore Uganda Malaysia Seals 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

They have a discontinuous distribution but are found on every continent except Antarctica, yet until this year I had only ever seen them in one place, Lake Mburu in Uganda. This is a rather odd family of ground living birds that have gone the night bird route of living, a style of life betrayed by their massive eyes.

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Uganda Family Australia Killing 164

Critter News

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Body said arrests and seizures were part of a five-country law enforcement operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL, and involved more than 300 law enforcement officers from police, customs, national wildlife and national intelligence agencies in Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, further saying this represented largest-ever international (..)

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Trafficking Africa Zambia Ghana 100

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MAY 12, 2013

It is found in higher-elevation woodlands from northern Zambia and Malawi northwards through Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia and into the Arabian peninsula. This high elevation east African species is now known as Dusky Turtle-Dove.

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Africa Somalia Mozambique Pelicans 206

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

And sure enough, the natural reservoir of Marlburg, an unpleasant relative of Ebola, was finally identified in was indeed a bat cave I had taken my parents to in Uganda. It was given to be by my mother who had a) read and enjoyed it and b) told me that I had taken her to one of the dangerous places listen therein.

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Humane Animal Ukraine Africa 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2021

According to the HBW, “Frederick Jackson, turn of the century Governor of Uganda, and an early leading authority on the birds of East Africa, likened those calls to the hideous mocking laughter of a witch” Sounds interesting. The bird looks a bit more interesting than that. It is near-threatened.

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South Africa Africa Lesotho Nigeria 228

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And what I am saying here doesn’t only apply to his Sri Lanka guide, but to all the others as well (these include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Suriname).

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 222

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

In 2008, the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund donated $5,000 to Friends of Conservation, $15,000 to International Rhino Foundation, $10,000 to Rhino Fund Uganda and $10,000 to Tusk Trust to support rhino conservation efforts in the wild.

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White Rhinos Rhinos Tampa 2008 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

Hippos are one such attraction, and Mum pointed out she was much happier seeing them on the large party boat we were on than the dugout canoe she saw them on when we were in Uganda. Nile Crocodiles, Waterbuck and Impala are also very common around the river.

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Botswana Lesotho Elephants Bald Eagle 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I had spent six months living in suitable rainforest habitat in Uganda, and been on innumerable safari walks , drives and cruises were they might be found. I had, after all, been to 13 countries that were home to leopards, over the course of 14 years, of which in all but one I had been in habitat suitable for this most adaptable of big cats.

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Cats Leopards South Africa Tigers 104

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

He does find out that some have recently been made when he arrives in Uganda, stupendous news). So little is known about Green-breasted Pitta, that he cannot get a definite location for the bird, or a recording of its display call. (He I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Even more so, was locating a family of Dusky Babblers , these rarely encountered birds occur mostly in inaccessible regions of South Sudan and northern Uganda, and this was my only lifebird of the trip.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

But a a package, if I had to rate the best places I’ve ever been birding, the only place I can think that comes close is Mweya, in Uganda, or maybe Tikal, in Guatemala. There are, certainly, places I’ve enjoyed more. And places I have seen more birds.

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Lemurs Rhinoceros Uganda Leopards 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. He came into studying birds rather later in life, and could quit any time he wants to.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 174