Celebrating Birds in Africa
Secretary Bird
Beautiful Sunbird
Taita Fiscal
Squacco Heron
Saddle-billed Stork, female
Kori Bustard, male in full display at lek
Cut-throat
Fire-fronted Bishop
Gray Crowned Crane
Pied Kingfisher pair
White-winged Tern
Greater Painted-Snipe, female
Taveta Golden-Weaver
Common Ostrich, male
Blacksmith Lapwing chick
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Baillon's Crake, chick
Baillon's Crake, adult
Water Thick-knee with half a frog. It had three chicks in attendance.
Collared Pratincole
Long-toed Lapwing
African Spoonbill
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Rosy-patched Bushshrike
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Rattling Cisticola
Fischer's Sparrow-Lark, juvenile
Superb Starling
African Penguin
African Penguin
African Harrier-hawk raiding swallow & swift nests
Brimstone Canary
Southern Double-collared Sunbird
Southern Double-collared Sunbird
White-fronted Bee-eater
White-fronted Bee-eater
Southern Crested Guineafowl
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
Common warthog and Red-billed Oxpecker
Red-billed Oxpecker
Arrow-marked Babbler
Amethyst Sunbird
Black-bellied Starling
Brown Snake Eagle
Helmeted Guineafowl
Natal Spurfowl
Bennett’s Woodpecker
Three-banded Plover
Red-billed Firefinch
Red-eyed Dove
Woodland Kingfisher with insect
Down the hatch!
Red-backed Shrike, female
Lilac-breasted Roller
Brown-headed Parrot nibbling on Combretum seeds
Dusky Turtle-Dove
Bronze Mannekin, juvenile
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Spotted Flycatcher
Speckled Mousebird
Speckled Mousebird, immature
Baglafecht Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Woodland Kingfisher
White-backed Vulture
Crowned Lapwing
Red-backed Shrike, male
Swainson’s Spurfowl
African Pied Wagtail
MacKinnon’s Shrike on red hot pokers
MacKinnon’s Shrike
Bronze Sunbird, female
Double-banded Sandgrouse
Red-billed Oxpecker on giraffe
Northern Double-collared Sunbird, male
Northern Double-collared Sunbird, female
Vieillot’s Black Weaver, male
Streaky Seedeater
Tawny Eagle at Helmeted Guineafowl carcass
Tawny Eagle
White-browed Robin-chat
Crowned Eagle chick
Village Weaver, male
African Woolly-necked Stork
Forest Weaver
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow, breeding adult
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow, non-breeding
Village Weaver, female
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Southern Red Bishop, female
Village Weaver: bad hair day
African Blue Flycatcher
Laughing Dove
Village Weaver, immature
African Jacana & Cape buffalo cow
Bar-tailed Trogon
Southern Red Bishop, female/immature
Hadeda Ibis
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Brown Snake Eagle
Kurrichane Thrush
Bateleur
Blue Waxbills
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
White-browed Coucal
Hungry Burchell’s Coucal youngster
Black-winged Kite
Ant-eating Chat
Pale Chanting Goshawk
Little Bittern
Southern Red Bishop
Malachite Kingfisher
Ruff, female
Spotted Thick-knee
Black-faced Sandgrouse, female
Abyssinian Thrush
Kandt's Waxbill
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
Streaky Seedeater
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
Hunter's Cisticola
Bronze Sunbird
Abyssinian Thrush
Hunter's Cisticola
Pin-tailed Whydah, male (left) displaying to female (right)
Pin-tailed Whydah, male
Rosy-patched Bushshrikes singing among Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-weaver nests
Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-weaver
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Jackson's Widowbird
Yellow-billed Stork
Greater Flamingoes interacting
Marabou Stork
Red-billed Oxpeckers on rhino
White Stork
African Spoonbill
African Fisheagle
Greater Flamingo, juvenile
Gray-hooded Gull with fish. Lesser Flamingoes in the background.
Glossy Ibis, non-breeding plumage
Greater Flamingo
Greater Flamingo
Flamingo snooze
Blacksmith Lapwing
Kori Bustard
Rufous-tailed Weaver
Gray Crowned Crane
Spurwing Goose bathing
Spurwing goslings
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Northern Red-billed Hornbill
Golden Pipit
Black-capped Social-weaver
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Black-bellied Bustard, male juvenile
Pied Cuckoo
White-throated Bee-eater
African Bare-eyed Thrush
Little Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
White-browed Sparrow-weaver
Village Weaver
Pied Kingfisher, female
Northern Fiscal
Greater Kestrel
Lappet-faced Vultures
Pygmy Falcon
Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Southern Ground Hornbill
Black Coucal, juvenile
Hildebrandt's Starling
Speckle-fronted Weaver
Gray-headed Social-Weaver
Rufous-crowned Roller
Purple Grenadier, female
Silverbird
Unidentified lark
Fork-tailed Drongo
Little Stint
White-backed Vulture
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Variable Sunbird
Golden-winged Sunbird
Kori Bustard
Speke's Weaver
Lilac-breasted Roller
Grosbeak Weaver, female/immature
Golden-backed Weaver
Knob-billed Duck
Red-necked Spurfowl chicks
Nubian Woodpeckers displaying
Rufous-naped Lark
White-bellied Bustard, male
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
African Gray Woodpecker
White-rumped Shrike
Yellow-collared Lovebird
Yellow-collared Lovebird
Double-banded Courser