Birdwatching

Lake Nakuru’s Flamingo Spectacle Explained For much of the late twentieth century, Lake Nakuru was shorthand for one of the natural world’s most extravagant sights: a […]

Kenya’s Rift Valley Lakes: Bogoria, Elmenteita, and Baringo North of Nakuru, a trio of rift valley lakes, Bogoria, Elementaita, and Baringo, sit within a relatively compact […]

Kenya’s Lake Elementaita Flamingo and Pelican Haven Lake Elementaita occupies a quieter niche among Kenya’s chain of rift valley soda lakes, smaller and less internationally famous […]

Tanzania’s Usangu Wetlands and Birdlife Upstream of Ruaha National Park’s famous dry-season river corridor lies a vast, little-known wetland system that determines, more than almost any […]

Few landscapes on Earth look quite as hostile to life as Lake Natron, a shallow, blood-red soda lake in northern Tanzania’s remote Rift Valley, its water […]

The Secretary Bird: Africa’s Snake-Hunting Raptor A Raptor That Refuses to Fly to Hunt Nearly every bird of prey on Earth hunts from the air, scanning […]

Flamingos of the Rift Valley Lakes Explained Why the Rift Valley Became a Flamingo Superhighway For visitors accustomed to thinking of flamingos primarily as a symbol […]

East Africa’s Owl Species and Where to Spot Them The Night Shift of the East African Bush While the overwhelming majority of safari activity happens by […]

The Shoebill Stork: Africa’s Prehistoric-Looking Bird A Bird That Looks Borrowed From the Age of Dinosaurs Few birds anywhere on Earth provoke quite the same startled […]

Vultures of East Africa and Their Conservation Crisis The Cleanup Crew Nobody Thinks to Thank Circling high above a fresh kill, often the first visible sign […]

A Continental Crossroads for Migrating Birds Ornithologists refer to this broader system as the Afro-Palearctic flyway, one of several major global migration corridors connecting northern breeding […]