Far and Wide: road-tripping in Namibia

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“Brown Firefinch”|”Ross’s Turaco”|Bare-cheeked Babblers|Bradfield’s Hornbill|Burchell’s Sandgrouse|Coppery-tailed Coucal|Double-banded Sandgrouse|Grey Go-away-birds|Halali Camp|Hartlaub’s Babblers|Herero Chat|Meyer’s Parrot|Mike Buckham|Namaqua Sandgrouse|Okaukuejo|Pink-billed Larks|Red-billed oxpeckers|Red-billed Spurfowls|roan antelope|Rufous-eared Warbler|Stark’s Lark|Swamp Boubous|Violet Wood-hoopoes|White-backed Night Herons|Yellow-billed oxpeckers

Big little liars

“It’s the start of the rains in southern Zambia and a small, glossy black finch is singing incessantly from
the top of an exposed tree. The song is mostly a hurried ramble of chatters and scratchy warbles, but
occasionally the bird intersperses trills and tinkling notes that sound nearly identical to those of a local
species of firefinch. This seemingly inconsequential observation hints at a fascinating evolutionary
story unfolding in woodlands and savannas throughout Africa.”