Zambia’s bird life is better understood and more thoroughly documented because Frank Willems is in it. For the last 13 years Frank has been all
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Author: budgetbirders
Dip The Kip – Tanzania’s Hardest Endemic
How many times can we search for Kipenjere’s Seedeater and miss it? The honest answer: more times than I can count. What a boring bird
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Saving The Easiest for Last – Tanzania 3.0
The majority of our time spent in Tanzania was during the rainy season. 2020 was an especially rainy year and after a dangerous ride in
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The Hardest Hike of My Life – Tanzania 3.0
There’s a mountain that rises sharply out of the ground in far Western Tanzania. To the east lies hundreds of kilometers of miombo forest and
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Hands Down THE BEST Bird Thus Far! – Tanzania 3.0
There’s a moment, just before an African rainstorm, that the air has a nice chill to it. When the heat from the sun becomes the
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Tanzanian Karibu – Tanzania 3.0
There is a special song that arises just before the sun. The dawn chorus, when the birds begin to sing all at once, happens each
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Just Relax and Bird — End of Uganda
Nothing to do but just bird. That was our agenda as we entered Lake Mburo National Park. We had done so well in Uganda we
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Up Close And Personal — Gorillas National Park
Gorillas. The largest primates on earth. Massive creatures found in the jungles of Africa and world renowned for their size, power, and personal expressions similar
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“Penetrating the Impenetrable” — Bwindi, Uganda
“We’re going to get some endemics today!”“Well actually they aren’t endemic…”“Well you can’t get into the DRC sooooo…”“Albertine Rift endemics!!”This was the conversation we had
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Clutch Timing?? – Queen Elizabeth NP
Unexpected car troubles are never fun but the unexpected is part of the game. It’s part of travel. There is always something and anyone who
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