Category: Birds
Our Stories:
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Can an Alarm Clock Be a Symbol of Love?
Most guests at Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi wake up grinning, blinking at the sunlight and thinking, “Oi, what is that racket?” It’s not your alarm. It’s a cheeky dawn chorus, courtesy of the Cinnamon-chested bee-eaters. These feathered show-offs have taken up residence in the eucalyptus forest around Bunyonyi, and they’re not exactly shy about it.…
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Rest in Peace, Pleasure Katusiime (June 2024 – April 2025)
Before we all dive headfirst into the craziness of a new week, we want to take a moment and raise a feathered toast to a tiny legend who somehow stole all our hearts — our cheeky little Pleasure Katusiime (or just PK, if you were lucky enough to know her). She wasn’t just flapping about…
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The Shadowy Secrets of Sunbird Hill: Who Would Visit Kibale for Chimps?!
National park megastars can be annoying. Allow a park to get famous for one specific thing and that’s all people are going to think about. In the case of Kibale NP in western Uganda, it’s the chimpanzee! But picture an enchanting place — right on the jungle fringe — where a nature lover can get…
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SABA Episode #23 — Birding Fun for Beginners (with Jeanisse Hawa)
To tempt you to join the Global Big Day, the worldwide party on 13 May for all those who are crazy about birds, we invited Jeanisse Hawa to our podcast. She talks about her passion for birdwatching and what it’s like to be a female tour guide in Rwanda. If you’ve found it a bit daunting…
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Ancient Relic
500mm, 1/640s, f/5, ISO250 Believe it or not, this is one of the region’s stars – at least for avid bird-watchers. The shoebill (sometimes known as the whale-headed stork) is a particularly prehistoric-looking bird found in swamps and wetlands throughout central Africa, but because of habitat destruction and hunting there are only between 5000 and…
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How a Gracious Bird Taught Me a Lesson in Patience
Bunyonyi literally means ‘place of many little birds’, and everyone who has ever visited this lake in the southwest of Uganda, knows that that is not an exaggeration. From kingfishers who dive with their beaks straight down in the water, to the hamerkops waiting patiently on the riverbanks, to the gracious national pride of Uganda,…
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