shoebill

Murchison’s Falls National Park, Uganda

Justin Bell2024-11-27T07:12:20+01:00African Destinations, Justin Bell, Rare species, Uganda|

Uganda is not a big cat destination, and becomes a place we often visit to track the rare mountain gorillas. This is a fantastic experience but, whenever I am in a country, I have a yearning to see more of it. In January I was guiding a safari there tracking ...

Search for the shoebill

Justin Bell2024-11-27T07:16:22+01:00Culture, Justin Bell, Rare species, Uganda|

The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a somewhat enigmatic large stork-like bird that is found in swamps between Sudan and Zambia in Africa. While the Ancient Egyptians were familiar with this bird, it was not known to Europeans until the 19th Century. Because it lives in such inaccessible and remote swamps, ...

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