Halfway through our birding safari in Botswana, my wife, our two sons, and I had somehow identified more than 150 winged species — no small feat for a family that had only recently taken up bird ...

A large vireo, the red-eyed is one of the most common songbirds in eastern woodlands. It moves sluggishly through the canopy of broadleaf forests, making it hard to detect, and often picks food by ...

THE red-eyed bulbul is a very common resident in the drier northwest of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. They like savanna, drier woodland, semi-arid scrub, riverine bush, farmyards, gardens ...