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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Category: Tanzania
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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Serengeti To Ourselves?!?
The Serengeti is one of those places. There’s a special connotation about it — and for good reason, it’s one of the most amazing places to go for wildlife viewing. We had it to ourselves but it almost didn’t get a chance to happen…
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Another New Sighting for eBird!
In March of 2020 no one knew what was about to happen. News of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China was just starting to
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Prove You Are A Tourist
Ross is under the impression that all of our remote bird expeditions look the same: take a bad road, show up in a village, coordinate,
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Into the Udzungwas!
We came to Tanzania on a mission to see all of the country’s endemics, and in order to see all of the country’s endemics, multiple
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Back to The Uluguru’s
Ross warned me. I knew what I was getting into. I agreed anyway. The Usambaras, the Ulugurus, the Udazangwas, and the Rubeos, collectively part of
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