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Welcome to African Bird Photos. On this site, I have posted my photographs of birds of Africa as well as elsewhere in the world. I hope you enjoy perusing the photo gallery. Every week, I’ll be posting a different “Star of the week” bird on this home page.

STAR OF THE WEEK

FRA.: **Bécasseau minuscule**, ENG.: Least Sandpiper LAT.: *Calidris minutilla*, SITE: Grand-Manan, N-BrunswickCANADA, 2016-1084

The star of the week is a Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) photographed in Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, CANADA during the month of August.

Organisation

I have organized the photographs of African Bird Photos according to the scientific nomenclature by Bird family, and sub-family when opportune. In order to do so, I have chosen the classification adopted by the Ornithological portal: Oiseaux.net, which, by the way is a fantastic resource. I do hope knowledgeable visitors will point out any incorrect identification that crops up in the course of populating my African Birds photos gallery.

Resources

I have been very fortunate in Africa to work with very competent and knowledgeable guides. They have a superb understanding of their environment and of the birds inhabiting them. Some of them regularly host birding enthusiasts from abroad, and I am happy to provide their names and contacts on this site. They have been quite generous with their time helping me identify birds on some photographs with which I had trouble, even now that I have returned to Canada. In the recommendations page, you will find those contacts.

Blog

There is also a blog section on African Bird Photos. In it, I hope to confer with visitors regularly. Please follow my posts, and contribute when you feel moved to do so. A good place to exchange about bird photography as well as identification. I hope to discuss past travel experience in the blog as well as upcoming travel planned.

News

There is also a “What’s New” section. It allows me to post upcoming PowerPoint© conferences on Africa and elsewhere which I give on occasion. Until now, I have given conferences on Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Ethiopia and India.

Books

I have published two books on the birds of Senegal, and the Books page will allow you to be redirected to the publisher’s web site where those books can be purchased, either as paperbacks or as eBooks.

Thank you for visiting, and I hope you enjoy the experience.