Ethiopia’s Endemics

Ethiopia’s Endemics

Hi folks – here’s a link to Adam’s latest post on 10,000 Birds where he shares some of his images of Ethiopia’s top endemic birds and mammals taken on a recent Rockjumper in Style tour to Ethiopia:...

Madagascar’s Lost and Found

Madagascar’s Lost and Found

(This blog originally appeared on 10000birds.com) Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. This is particularly poignant if the bird has disappeared during the course of my birding days or “on my watch”, as I like to...

Rockjumper’s debut Myanmar Birding tour

Rockjumper’s debut Myanmar Birding tour

Hi all! A recent trip to the seldom-visited birding hotspot of Burma (or Myanmar as it is known these days) proved to be an immense success. We managed to score all 7 Burmese endemics, namely the four dry country specialties (Hooded Treepie, Burmese Bushlark, Jerdon’s Minivet and White-throated...

Tanzania – Africa at its best

Tanzania – Africa at its best

(This article first appeared on 10000birds.com) Tanzania is without a doubt the quintessential African safari nation. Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail: tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with...

Introducing the African Birding Beat

Introducing the African Birding Beat

(This blog first appeared on 10000birds.com) To the uninitiated, Africa conjures up images of underdevelopment, poverty and hardship. Yet after a first visit, so many travelers become Afrophiles and return again and again to explore the Dark Continent, sometimes even to the exclusion of all other destinations! My...

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