We still vaguely remember seeing a long tailed bird at La Digue in 2010 but never thought that this bird would call us back to the islands after 12 long years. This eventually happened during the 2022 Diwali holidays and with the help of cloudbirder trip reports, we chalked out an itinerary covering Seychelles, Mauritius […]
Afrotropic
Ghana
After experiencing the East African birdlife along the Albertine and Ethiopian rift valleys, we decided to visit the West African region; and Ghana fit the bill perfectly with decent infrastructure and access to most of the endemic/near endemic Upper Guinea birds. We browsed through several trip reports to get a feeling of this region and […]
Central Ethiopia
The festive holidays in India gave us an excellent opportunity to visit Ethiopia as it coincided with the near perfect birding season of the country. We were also very excited to walk the ancient land where apes may have started walking upright, thus paving the way for humans to evolve. However, as we only had […]
Mgahinga & Nyungwe
PART II: DAY 8 – DAY 10 Day 11: 6 Aug 2018 (Ruhija: Mubwindi swamp) Today we hiked to the Mubwindi swamp along with the local bird guide Amos, and managed to see the Grauer’s Swamp Warbler and several other interesting birds, but the Grauer’s Broadbill remained elusive. After the hike, we drove to the […]
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
PART I: DAY 1 – DAY 7 Day 8: 3 Aug 2018 (Elizabeth NP – Buhoma) We left the Pumba Safari Cottages early morning in search of the Papyrus Gonolek, eventually finding the bird in a small papyrus patch along the roadside. We then drove to Buhoma via the Ishasha sector reaching the Community Rest […]
Uganda
Visiting the African continent was always on our wish list and the moment we got 15 days off work, we decided to travel to Uganda as our holidays coincided with the peak Ugandan birding season. We also added Rwanda into the plan due to its proximity to Uganda and the possibility to see a few […]