SKYWAYS | In search of birding’s Holy Grail
With only a few days to go before my flight to Beira, the excitement was palpable. It was almost time to search for the Holy Grail of African birding –...
10 February, 2020
Articles & Features
AFRICAN BIRDLIFE | In the Background
The photographic genre of birdscape, habitat or ‘birds in their environment’ images surely ranks as one of the most difficult to master. In essence, these are photographs in which the...
10 February, 2019
AFRICAN BIRDLIFE | Setting the stage
The current array of cameras and lenses available to photographers often means that a great in-flight photograph or a detailed close-up of a shy species is not necessarily sufficient to...
10 June, 2018
AFRICAN BIRDLIFE | Making Memories
Bird photography is a tonic for my soul and the photographs I take form part of a memory bank of special people, places and occasions. Seven years ago I started...
10 February, 2018
AFRICAN BIRDLIFE | Wild, but worth it
Africa currently has a number of ‘best birding destinations’, but Cameroon is probably quite low on the radar at present. That could change, as this Central African country supports almost...
10 June, 2017
AFRICAN BIRDLIFE | Conquering the Coutadas
Long ago, before the civil war, Mozambique had a well-deserved reputation as a hunting destination and the Coutadas (from the Portuguese word for hunting concession) in the centre of the country...
10 June, 2016
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