Travelling in the age of coronavirus restrictions is not easy. Keeping up with the status of transmission and the ever-changing laws can be confusing and
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Author: budgetbirders
Our Truck Goes on an Adventure… Without Us.
And just like that the man responsible for getting our car to the Tanzania/Malawi border was gone. Yes, you read that right. Gone. Our truck
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Finally Some Birding! @ The Rondo Plateau – Southern Tanzania
It was a nightmare to get to, but the Rhondo Plateau was a fantastic place to visit! Now if only we could decipher our bird books to identify our target batis!
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One Road Was Paved. The Other Was Caved.
I’ll let you guess what road we ended up on.
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Chasing Lumangwe Falls & Tanzania Masked Weaver
We aren’t ones to chase waterfalls, because we are too busy chasing birds. But sometimes exceptions are made. Any by definition, exceptions are rare and
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Headed Into A Papyrus Swamp – Northern Zambia
One of the unique qualities of our Africa birding trip is that we were headed to places off the beaten path, even for birders, to
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Surprise, It’s a Striped Crake
Zambia is supposed to be the place to see Blue Quail, but after leaving Mutinondo, where we walked in as many grasslands as possible, we
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So Many Trails But We Walk The Swamp – @ Mutinondo
When there are so many beautiful sites and well-maintained trails, I find it difficult to want to walk through a swamp. It’s hard walking after
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More Photos Than We Know What To Do With @ Nyika National Park
Let me tell you a little story. We’re at 2,200m (7,000ft+) elevation. It’s dark. It’s cold. It’s raining. We’re on the side of a steep
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It Sucks To Say Goodbye
We were going to break the African big year record. We were going to see (hopefully) over 1,700 species of birds on the continent for
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