Pair of Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata)
Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched on a branch
African fish eagle
Long-crested Eagle, Lophaetus occipitalis, perched on a tree stump
African fish eagle
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)
Pair of Grey crowned cranes "kissing"
Great White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans on a Lake Edward/Kazinga Channel beach
Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus
Yellow weavers at breakfast
Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) in a treetop
Cinnamon-chested bee-eater (Merops oreobates)
Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched on a branch
African fish eagle in flight
African fish eagle perched in a thorn bush
African fish eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer
Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) atop a Euphorbia plant
Pair of African crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum)
|
|
Yellow-billed Stork, Mycteria ibis
African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on a beach along the Kazinga Channel
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) drying its wings in the sun
Hundreds of cormorants and pelicans gathered on a sanbar
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) with its mouth slightly agape
Male Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus) nest building
Crowned hornbill (Tockus alboterminatus)
Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched on a branch
Woodland kingfisher
Woodland kingfisher with Rwenzori mountains behind
Grey-headed kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala, on a Euphorbia plant
Pied Kingfisher eating a minnow
Pair of African fish eagles, Haliaeetus vocifer
African fish eagle perched in a thorny bush
African fish eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, in flight
Flock of Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) on the African savanna
Flock of African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on the Kazinga Channel
|
|
Sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
Goliath heron, Ardea goliath, in Uganda
Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus, with pied kingfishers in the background
African skimmers on a beach along the Kazinga Channel
Group of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) on a beach of the Kazinga Channel
Buffalo, pelicans, cormorants on a sandbar in the Kazinga Channel
Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens), and Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus, walking in the shallows of the Kazinga Channel
Immature Black-headed heron
Male weaverbird working on building a nest in the early evening
Male orange weaver (Ploceus aurentius) on a papyrus stalk
Blue bird with a moderately long tail (African blue-flycatcher (Elminia longicauda)?)
Blue-headed coucal, Centropus monachus
Variable sunbird (Cinnyris venusta) or Collared sunbird (Hedydipna collaris)
Rueppell's Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis purpuropterus)
Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) wading in duckweed
|
| |
Related articles
Saving one of Africa's most stunning parks through biomass briquettes and fuel-efficient stoves
(06/06/2013)
When Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern first arrived in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2000 to study monkeys, little did they know then that they would stay on to kick-start an innovative organization, The New Nature Foundation, connecting locals to the park through videos and visits. Nor did they know they would soon tackle the biggest threat to Kibale: deforestation for cooking fuel wood. Since 2006, the couple's organization has implemented a hugely-successful program that provides biomass briquettes for environmentally-friendly fuel for locals, cutting down on the need for forest destruction.
African militias trading elephant ivory for weapons
(06/05/2013)
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is using lucrative elephant poaching for ivory to fund its activities, according to a report published on Tuesday. Eyewitness accounts from park rangers, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) escapees and recent senior defectors report that the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, who is wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, ordered African forest elephants to be killed in Garamba national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the tusks sent to him.
Why responsible tourism is the key to saving the mountain gorilla
(05/13/2013)
The sunlight poured through the canopy, casting dappled shade over Makara, a large silverback mountain gorilla, as he cast his eyes around the forest clearing, checking on the members of his harem. A female gorilla reclined on a bank of dense vegetation of the most brilliant green, clutching her three day old infant close to her chest, and elsewhere, two juvenile gorillas played around a small tree, running rings around it until one crashed into the other and they rolled themselves into a roly-poly ball of jet black fluff that came to a halt a few meters in front of our delighted group.
Featured video: camera trapping in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(05/07/2013)
A new video highlights the work of Badru Mugerwa as he sets and monitors 60 remote camera traps in one of the most rugged tropical forests on Earth: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Mugerwa is working with the TEAM Network, run by Conservation International, which monitors mammal and bird populations in 16 protected tropical forests around the world. Every researcher uses the same methodology allowing findings to be compared not just from year-to-year but across oceans.
Elephant woes: conservationists mixed on elephant actions at CITES
(03/14/2013)
Conservationists couldn't agree if the glass was half-full or half-empty on action to protect elephants at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand. Elephants, especially in Africa, have faced a massive rise in poaching over the last decade with tens-of-thousands shot dead every year. Forests elephants in central Africa have been especially targeted: new research estimates that an astounding 60 percent of the world's forest elephants have been slaughtered for their tusks in the last ten years alone. While conservationists had hopes that CITES would move aggressively against elephant poaching, the results were a decidedly mixed-bag.
Mountain gorilla population up by over 20 percent in five years
(11/13/2012)
A mountain gorilla census in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has a population that continues to rise, hitting 400 animals. The new census in Bwindi means the total population of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) has reached 880—up from 720 in 2007—and marking a growth of about 4 percent per year.
Method to estimate primate abundance falls short
(09/17/2012)
Counting wildlife may sound straight-forward, but achieving accurate estimates has plagued scientists for centuries, especially in difficult and dense environments like rainforest. Recently, one method to estimate leaf-eating primates was to look at leaf quality in a particular habitat, particularly the ratio of protein to fiber in leaves. However, a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science adds to growing concerns regarding this model by finding that it doesn't accurately predict abundance of red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus) in Uganda's Kibale National Park.
Forest cover falls 9% in East Africa in 9 years
(07/31/2012)
Forest cover in East Africa has dropped by 9.3 percent from 2001-2009, according to a new paper published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Looking at 12 countries in the region, the scientists found that, worryingly, forests were particularly hard hit near protected areas. Usually thought of as a region of vast savannas, such as the Serengeti, East Africa is also home to incredibly biodiverse tropical forests, including coastal forests, rich montane forests, and the eastern portion of the Congo Rainforest.
Cute animal picture of the day: endangered baby giraffe
(03/29/2012)
A baby Rothschild's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) was recently born at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Bronx Zoo. The subspecies was classified as Endangered in 2010 with a wild population of less than 700 individuals in Kenya and Uganda.
Solitary male monkeys cause crop damage in Uganda
(03/19/2012)
Solitary male red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) cause significant damage to cocoa crops in Uganda, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS). Researchers examined crop raiding by social groups of red-tailed monkeys and lone males, only to discover that solitary males caused significantly more damage to cocoa crops than the average group member. The research may have implications for how to mitigate human-wildlife conflict in the area.
|
