Populations of turtle dove, nightingale, cuckoo, wood warbler and other long-distance migratory birds are declining so rapidly in the UK and Europe that the RSPB, BirdLife International and BirdLife partners from other European and African countries will be lobbying this week for their plight to be addressed at a conservation gathering focused on conserving the […]
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Tanzania: Wetlands Are Habitat for Common Bishop Birds
The monitoring project run by the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town has been urging me to send in another report. I have wanted to send an update, but I’ve been waiting for the outcome of the current breeding efforts of a pair of Zanzibar Red Bishop Birds. Several species of birds […]
Uganda: Museveni Orders Kaloli Birds Relocated
The days of scavenger birds at State House Nakasero are numbered following an order by President Yoweri Museveni to relocate them. The Marabou Storks, which are commonly known as Kaloli, feed on wastes. Prior to their movement to Kampala in the 1970s, they used to occupy swampy parts of Lake Kyoga and southern Sudan. read […]